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"It is a very precarious existence if you are living on a low income and you barely have enough for anything else except for food or clothing, and then all of a sudden there is an additional demand on you based on some legal matter - that throws everything off.
His domestic stability more precarious than he ever dreamed, Harford is eaten at by fantasies of his wife and the soldier, and emerges from his apartment into a kind of Walpurgisnacht . The daughter (Richardson) of a dead patient blurts out a wish to leave her fiance for him.
For most quiz participants, the "precarious venture" that needed saving was either a failing TV show or a foundering political campaign.
The only natural hazard that can disturb Malibu’s cheerful complacency is the odd storm tide or landslide that washes the precarious beach houses into the Pacific.
Among the early story lines : The rioters were sending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a message that he must negotiate or pay a price; relations between the Israeli army and Palestinian police--who fought alongside the rioters--have collapsed; Netanyahu was not a decisive ideologue but a aimless dawdler; concessions to the Palestinians, said the Likud government, would signal weakness and invite further attacks; and the conflagration placed Egypt in a precarious position as it tried to facilitate reconciliation amid Arab rage over Israel's actions.