ON a 4,025-mile 4,025-milegh America's heartourd, Yoshi Higa dodged wild animals, weathroughviolent storms Americaured 104-degree heat -- all from the precarious vantage point of a bicycle seat.
The precarious state of the economy and the degree of social tension were revealed when only about half of those eligible to vote did so in the 1962 presidential elections, which brought Guillermo León Valencia, a Conservative, to the presidency.
His degree came late, and his accounts were always precarious until he married, at 34, Gail Rebuck, soon head of Random House.
As Mr. Sanford, 50, a two-term Republican, prepares to leave office in January, he is enjoying a degree of political success that seemed unimaginable in the precarious days after his teary appearance on national television in the summer of 2009.
These conditions always respond to some degree to the same treatment, but results are often precarious, incomplete, or, in the end, not satisfactory.
And does a Yale degree ever have cachet, either as ever, or given the precarious state of the arts in this country, perhaps as never before.
KARACHI, Pakistan — When Bani Abidi returned to this country in 2003 after studying for a master's degree at the Art Institute of Chicago, she was anxious about the precarious position of her homeland.
"But when you see what happened when global temperatures dropped by just one degree and you look at current predictions of six or seven degree increases for the future, you realize how precarious things are for life as we know it".
Conversation is precarious.
