Owners of smaller stores said they had mixed feelings about the precarious health of Borders, which last month delayed payments to publishers and has appeared dangerously close to bankruptcy.
Not just on the border, where the precarious embrace of two sovereign entities has solidified into barriers, buildings and a bureaucracy; also on either side.
A recent article in the Elk Grove Patch, for example, considered the precarious fate of its local Borders bookstore the only non-religious bookstore in the Californian city, just south of Sacramento.
Factor in the growing impact of climate change across the African Sahel region and already precarious populations on Europe's borders, and today's level of migration north could end up looking like a trickle.
Beginning the day in a position that was already bordering on the precarious, only Paul Collingwood, carving away as must have Horatio on the bridge, offered anything approaching resistance making 71 before he fell to a sucker first ball from the part-time spinner JP Duminy.
For Arab artists these were media that allowed them to explore and critique trade routes, borders and "the precarious nature of the urban environment in the region".
Finland, which is in a precarious position because of its long border with Russia, "will only move if Sweden moves," Kunz suggested.
"Occasionally the borders between atypical and precarious become blurred in a synonymous equalisation" [26, p. 502].
Algeria is to close the southern part of its border with Libya due to the "precarious situation" there, Algeria's El Watan newspaper reported, citing diplomatic sources.
The HHI analysts monitored the precarious situation related to mass atrocities along the border of Sudan and South Sudan and provided a real-time public reports of the situation to be used by the government and aid agencies.
