In developing countries, poverty will continue to fall and the middle class will grow, even if it will still be precarious by western standards and will be more vulnerable to economic turbulence.
WebMD's position as a middleman will always be precarious.
Three more days follow in the mountains, and if they do not determine the race's outcome, they will at least be precarious ones for Armstrong or whomever is in the lead.
Implementation will be as precarious as ever.
Those individuals will be financially precarious, but live happy, productive lives.
Moreover, the Palestinian Authority (PA), which Mr Abbas heads, depends on American cash.Still, if Mr Abbas has indeed decided to climb down, it will be a precarious operation.
With polls showing PASOK supporters flocking to the newly reinvigorated Coalition for the Radical Left (SYRIZA), it will be a precarious balancing act creating a new party with new faces that will produce an electable centrist social democratic party.
Meanwhile, institutions themselves will be increasingly precarious – some forced to shut, some privatised – and students will get poorer, as debt rises and "fee waivers" take precedence over bursaries, before being released into a world in which there are vanishingly few jobs.
