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• a  lacking stability or fixity or firmness
  unstable political conditions
  the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind
  an unstable world economy
• s  highly or violently reactive
  sensitive and highly unstable compounds
• s  affording no ease or reassurance
• s  suffering from severe mental illness
• s  disposed to psychological variability
  his rather unstable religious convictions
• s  subject to change; variable
  everything was unstable following the coup

• A large majority (70%) think weather patterns globally have become more unstable in the last three years and 56% feel average temperatures around the world have risen.
• The New Economy How people are adapting to the unstable job market: Now Hiring! Jobs are coming back, but not where you might expect: Hot Towns.
• While mass murderers are sometimes too mentally unstable to explain their acts, the suspect in the Akihabara killings gave police reasons that were chillingly mundane.

• precarious
• mentally ill
• unsound
• fluid

• stable

News & Articles

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• Terrebonne Levee District delays $97M bond sale
  Due to an unstable market, the Terrebonne Levee District opted to delay selling $97 million in bonds to raise immediate money for local work on the Morganza-to-the-Gulf levee system.
  June 12, 2013 - Erie Times-News
• Terrebonne Levee District delays $97M bond sale - KALB-TV News Channel 5 & CBS 2
  HOUMA, La. (AP) - Due to an unstable market, the Terrebonne Levee District opted to delay selling $97 million in bonds to raise immediate money for local work on the Morganza-to-the-Gulf levee system.
  June 12, 2013 - KALB Alexandria
• Levee District delays $97 million bond sale
  Due to an unstable market, the Terrebonne Levee District opted to delay selling $97 million in bonds to raise immediate money for local work on the Morganza-to-the-Gulf levee system.
  June 12, 2013 - The Houma Courier

Quotes

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• Timothy Geithner in FOXNews
  Senators, in this crisis, our financial system failed to meet its most basic obligations,Geithner said. "The system was too fragile and unstable, and because of this, the system was unfair and unjust. Individuals, families and businesses...
• President Bush in Dallas Morning News
  America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world,he said.
• Michaelle Jean in Toronto Star
  Gov-Gen Michaëlle Jean, who's of Haitian origin, says the natural disaster has hit "a country with an extremely fragile infrastructure, where many buildings are already unstable."