Word: flimsiest
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...drug thugs indicted by American prosecutors without getting a judge's signature on the order. That end-runs one of the biggest barriers to punishment of the gangsters: an intimidated Colombian Supreme Court in 1987 declared a U.S.-Colombia extradition treaty invalid on the flimsiest of technicalities. Both Washington and Bogota officials declare that the drug lords fear extradition more than anything else because they cannot terrorize judges and juries in the U.S. as readily as they can those in Colombia. The gangsters agree. Their communiques have been issued in the name of a group that calls itself, with defiant...
They are not. Publicly, Israeli officials are noncommittal. "Privately," concedes a senior Israeli army commander, "we are apoplectic. Acknowledging that moderate Palestinians actually exist in the middle of the intifadeh and that they are unafraid to meet Israelis when they know we can jail them on the flimsiest of pretexts means it might really be possible to achieve a peaceful solution -- which is exactly what Shamir is against. To him, calm talk can lead only to the thing he fears most, a Palestinian state in the West Bank...
...take the flimsiest idea, and fortify it with talk to turn it into saleable things. Like Reagan--he has flimsy philosophical ideas, but how he sells them is masterful," Tom says in a soft voice. He apologizes often for not being able to pin down the phrases that he wants; his words like his paintings more representational than realistic...
...looks inhabited but never quite settled, full of lovelorn suburban tracts and derelict factories where the banshees howl through the rusting work sheds. When recession comes -- a number of these pictures were taken during the slump of 1981-82 -- the oldest company towns in New England fall like the flimsiest trailer camp in Arizona. When times are good, the wilderness is shown being minced into salable acreage. Above it all, the sky rings its changes, slate blue in one picture, cornflower in the next, baby's-bottom pink in another. It is the last unspoiled stretch of America, the only...
...Communist dictatorships, no matter how heavily supported by the Soviet Union or its proxies. President Reagan's program of CIA support for the Nicaraguan contras, who are not fighting foreign occupation, broke post-Viet Nam precedent. At first, and for three long years, that new policy was given the flimsiest of justifications: interdicting supplies to the Salvadoran guerrillas. The Reagan Doctrine drops the fig leaf. It is intended to establish a new, firmer--a doctrinal--foundation for such support by declaring equally worthy all armed resistance to Communism, whether foreign or indigenously imposed...