"I think medical bills are something that a lot of families are having a lot of difficulty with and whether it's the direct cause of bankruptcy or whether it helps to push them over the edge because they already were in a precarious financial situation, it's a big concern and hopefully that's what medical reform will try to address, " he says.
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Leave a precarious house of cards that will collapse from a single downtick.
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One of the spots, which shows up on video sharing sites such as Hulu.com, shows a man stuck in a precarious situation: he is trying to escape a porcupine.
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"The consumer looks a lot more precarious than he did a few weeks ago, " said Mark Vitner, senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities.
In an era of 1, 000-plus channels and infinite entertainment on the Internet, the broadcast networks are already in a precarious position with younger viewers, which advertisers pay a premium to reach.
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If you stay unemployed too long hoping to match that former salary that is now further and further into your past, you put yourself in a precarious situation that may force you to take far worse than a 50% pay cut.
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This is a precarious position to find oneself in, and I think it can lead a lot of video game writers to just shrug off the problems.
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The prime minister said it was putting the world economy in a "precarious" situation and eurozone leaders had a "collective responsibility".
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Faced with such a precarious existence, and without basic infrastructure or security, it is easy to imagine an area trapped in a vicious downward spiral, barely attractive for habitation let alone migration.
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But this is a precarious strategy that is utterly dependent on preventing cracks in that base.
Hong Kong and Singapore are obviously special cases, trying to strike a precarious balance.
Poor capital allocation decisions and the rise of online vendors put OfficeMax in a precarious position.
One of the last pieces of steel hoisted up last year sits near a precarious edge.
As we all know much of the newspaper industry is in a precarious financial state.
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Still, if Mr Abbas has indeed decided to climb down, it will be a precarious operation.
Gamers in the U.S. are currently between generations of videogame systems, which is always a precarious time for the industry.
Many have been living a precarious existence in old refugee camps or in Peshawar, Quetta and other cities.
To cope with high premiums, the Elders played a precarious, yet common, game.
This should be troubling for Microsoft, which is in a precarious position with its new operating system and lackluster tablet sales.
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Private developers will not build low-cost housing in the absence of subsidies, and local governments are generally in a precarious financial condition.
The U.S. says that shrinking Arctic ice habitat, a product of a warming climate, puts polar bear populations in a precarious position.
Mr. Grahame-Smith now feels he's in a precarious position: sought-after, buoyed by hype but still unproven in the metric that matters most box-office returns.
West Virginia is said to be eying a jump to the SEC, which would leave the Big East in a precarious situation for football.
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So tens of thousands more workers will join Mr Sotillo in the informal economy, where one Venezuelan in two grinds out a precarious living.
Although debt-laden Italy and Spain are in the market's cross hairs, France's own high indebtedness places the euro zone's second-largest economy in a precarious spot.
But with falling profits and plummeting stock, and having hastened the end of the desktop PC era, Steve Jobs has put Apple again in a precarious position.
"The decisions that have been made in Washington these past six years, and the problems that have been ignored, have put our country in a precarious place, " he said.
Taking the above into account, one cannot help but find himself in quite a precarious and confusing position of trying to figure out the status of the US labor market.
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