Word: tenuously
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...critical right of Congress to exercise meaningful oversight of the nation's intelligence community has sustained a serious--albeit hardly fatal--blow in the wake of the administration's decision on Helms, and only a very tenuous silver lining could be discerned as the air cleared in Washington. As part of the bargain with Justice Department officials, Helms agreed to testify fully in any subsequent investigations pertaining to the entire CIA episode in Allende's Chile...
Play evened out during the second half, and with six minutes to go in the game Crimson back Sid Anderson scored on an extra-man situation off a set serum at the Brown 40 yard line. Anderson missed the conversion, leaving Harvard with a tenuous 4-3 advantage...
...Thropmen drove 87 yards to the Kirkland one-yard line. But the K-House front wall, led by the likes of tackle Tom 'Beef' DiBennedetto and fromer All-Ivy stalwart Carl Culig (now a Kirkland premed advisor), slammed the door shut as time ran out, thus preserving Kirkland's tenuous six point edge...
Certainly, the clash will do nothing to strengthen Carter's already tenuous links with business, which remains uncertain about the thrust and competence of his Administration and about the health of the economy. That uncertainty was mirrored on the New York Stock Exchange, where the Dow Jones industrial average dipped to a two-year low the very day of the President's press conference. The foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar also fell to a near-record...
Dosadi is the name of a barren planet, isolated from the rest of the universe by a "god-wall" from an unknown source, the Calebens. (No Shakespearian connotations, as they are good guys.) Outside of Dosadi's wall is a complex universe with a tenuous power balance among humans, the frog-like Gowachins and the death-dancing wreaves--with their Kung-fu-like movements and poisoned mandibles. Jorj X. McKie, a red-haired man of Polynesian descent, is the only human accepted as a Legum in the Gowachin legal system. Herbert fails to give the legal cult the depth...