For one, it signaled the possible loss of hundreds of jobs in one of the last secure sectors of employment, health care, in a city where the number of major employers can now be counted on one hand.
Much of the recent selling in the FTSE 100 has been concentrated on defensive stocks, the safe and secure sectors of the markets, as investors take profits in what are very liquid companies to raise cash for the spate of rights issues we are now seeing.
Analysis of voluntary cooperatives shows that their success is based on the existence of certain core conditions including relatively small homogeneous groups of players, secure sector-allocated and divisible rights, and the ability to form binding contracts among coop members.
But they are also expressing a fundamental mistrust in what was once the most reliable and secure sector of American life, the blue chips.
And in the most lethal of the attacks, they struck with a bomb-packed ambulance inside Kabul's "ring of steel," supposedly the most secure sector of the city.
Insiders people with jobs in the public sector, or with secure private-sector employment see economic reform not as a particular set of proposals, to be judged on its merits, but as the thin end of a wedge that threatens their whole privileged status.
After all, weaponry for hire or sale, and Dreamworks films, remain America's only secure export sectors.
After the discovery of alien life in the Koprulu Sector, the United Earth Directorate (UED the international body governing Earth decides to send an expeditionary force to secure the sector and prevent the aliens from finding Earth.
Perhaps the bigger issue has been the loss of decently paid, secure public sector work that offered ethnic minorities decent employment.
It was announced last week that a new organisation separate to Network Rail would be created to secure private sector investment to design, build and operate the reopening of the line from Oxford to Cambridge, which was closed in the 1960s.
"If we are serious about building a clean and secure energy sector we need a diverse energy system, and CCS is central to this," said Jenifer Baxter, at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
