Word: tenuous
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...Tigers are in first place in the AL East. They will stay there, protecting that tenuous half game lead over Milwaukee, and then Kirk Gibson, Jack Morris and Co. will dump New York in that first, ridiculous round of playoffs. Believe it, sports...
...oldest Christian community fights for a tenuous security...
Harvard has agreed to keep the switches off until after the EPA question is resolved in court this October, but community groups opposed to the plant have not been mollified. The plant has cleared many hurdles, but not without stepping on what protestors consider some tenuous turf. They question the legal rationale behind the recent victories and trace the facility's newly-found success to backroom powerbroking...
...Cutter--claiming the world is short on heroes and with the victims's sister as an accomplice--sets out to ensnare, via blackmail, the oil man. All of this is seen through Bone's eyes, and the uncertainty he has about his own testimony makes the who whodunit air tenuous. Maybe it's all just Cutter's fantasy. Maybe life can be a detective movie. Maybe they're all victims of fantasy. Bone's reluctance to go along with the deal slows the film down somewhat, and the result, depending on your mood is either discordant or unsatisying...
...narrow line between deterioration and danger and the tenuous link connecting history and simply old age are best seen as the House system celebrates its golden anniversary. "We're beyond the era of gentlemen needing suites and stables for their horses," Davis says. "There's no need to return to that era of housing. But at some point the run-down quality becomes a real problem...