In addition to the seemingly shaky plans for this year, Ms. Ziesel said that there were big changes in the governing board.
Those already shaky plans seemed to be dashed Friday when the Mets announced Harvey, their ace, would have Tommy John surgery, which means that in all likelihood, he will miss the 2014 season.
Even as antigovernment protesters in Yemen struggled to revitalize their movement, sketching somewhat shaky plans over the weekend for a transitional government, they produced a show of their core strength, taking to the streets in huge numbers on Sunday to protest the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
And weak or poorly enforced regulations have left many nursing homes with potentially deadly problems: not enough staff, lack of backup generators and automatic sprinkler systems, and shaky plans for evacuating residents and getting them to new facilities when a disaster strikes.
The world's treasuries and central banks are so alarmed at the risk of a financial meltdown that they may be ready to pile in to support even a shaky European plan.
Mr. Pataki promised to draw about $250 million from a reserve fund to keep construction on two large upstate highway projects under way, but he left the M.T.A. to contend with filling a $1.6 billion shortfall in its already shaky capital plan.
Democrats hope to tie the traditional distrust many older Americans have for proposals that seem to threaten Social Security or Medicare to broader economic anxieties of younger workers about job losses, shaky pension plans, shrunken private savings, the federal deficit and cutbacks in retiree health plans.
Oversaturation and shaky business plans have led some dispensaries down a path of no return.
But Democratic leaders in Congress, wearied by the political fallout from the White House's shaky banking bailout plan, proved a tougher audience than Detroit's car executives expected.
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