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...attempts to maintain order had provoked the angry walkout of two civilians in the ruling junta. The junta averted collapse only when a leading moderate, Christian Democrat Party Leader José Napoleón Duarte, was persuaded to join it last March. Its hold on power, however, remains tenuous because it is caught in a vise between the right and the left. Earlier this year a rightist coup that would have ushered in a full-scale military takeover was quashed at the last minute, mostly because Washington threatened an aid cutoff if it was carried...
...labor law puts employers in a tenuous situation. That is we would like to sit down and talk with the group, but that would constitute a type of recognition," Cantor explains...
Chicago's blacks have never enjoyed so much political clout. Now 40% of the city's population, the 1.2 million blacks helped defeat the late Mayor Richard Daley's selected heir, Michael Bilandic, and thus gave Jane Byrne a tenuous hold on city hall in 1979. A black will probably run for mayor in 1983. Blacks head the city's finance committee and the school board, and the city police department is now 23% black...
...Most elections are votes of confidence or no confidence and have little discernable impact on specific decisions. For most people in the world their connection to the productive order is tenuous; they can lose their land or their job at a moment's notice. They live at the mercy of economic and political decisions over which they have no control...
Because the ecological crisis is worldwide in scope while only American Christianity is surveyed. because Rifkin shifts randomly between referring to post-'50s politics and 18th century ideas when he uses the term 'liberalism,' and because he seems willing to twist the evidence to support a very tenuous hypothesis, The Emerging Order finally succeeds only in raising the issue and prompting thought about where we want to go. Prophecy gives way to polemic, and so the book cannot succeed on its own terms, as an outline of the emerging situation...