While Correa has been heralded by supporters as the "undisputed rhetorical leader of Latin America's left", and should see his standing enhanced there, Shifter said the president's consolidation of power had damaged Ecuador's "already precarious institutions".
Exiled to Chicago nine years ago, after Sanford Weill, his longtime mentor at Citigroup, fired him, Dimon rebuilt into a powerhouse one of the most precarious financial institutions, Bank One, founded by the McCoy family.
As The Economist went to press, Mr Wolfowitz still had his job, but his position was precarious and his institution paralysed.Blame for this tawdry mess belongs in many quarters.
In the case of public institutions, precarious jobs are those that have been put out to third-party contracts and are therefore subject only to operational control by managers.
"So many of our institutions are precarious, even in the best of times".
For a country where a large share of the population is beyond the effective reach of the state and where the rule of law is anyway highly precarious, confrontation between core institutions of government is a risky business.
18– 22 The following markers of SES were tested: "receipt of beneficiaries of medical welfare for precarious persons", "employment", "education", "stay in institutions or prisons", "marital status", "income" and "ethnicity".
Indeed, the legal footing for this so-called "institution" has never looked so precarious.
By contrast, most of your instructors in Intro classes will be sessional instructors, or "per contract academics," or whatever other jargon the institution uses in place of "hyperexploited precarious labour".
