As we all know much of the newspaper industry is in a precarious financial state.

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Both the team and its owners are in a precarious financial state and it is unclear how they will be able to meet new obligations stemming from the Picard litigation.

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We've been talking a lot about the precarious state of America's biggest auto companies.

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When the spread is rising, it is generally a negative for stocks and the precarious state of the 30-year T-bond yields was one of the triple alerts for stocks.

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One of Japan's wealthiest men and the founder of retailer Uniqlo, Tadashi Yanai, feels the events of March 11 served as a wakeup call to the Japanese about the precarious state of the economy.

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This worsened his already precarious financial state: his assets had been frozen as a result of a property dispute with his long-time mistress.

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