Word: tenuously
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...Mark A. Peterson in response to a shortage of thesis advisors, is unnecessarily exclusive. As an intellectually beneficial experience, theses are democratic: all students, not just the top-ranked, can benefit from them. The entire premise of these new restrictions--that lower-ranked students produce lower-quality research--is tenuous at best. Grades often are not an accurate predictor of thesis success...
...republics. By contrast, Vytautas Landsbergis, the newly elected President of the tiny Baltic state of Lithuania (pop. 3.7 million), is a bookish, bespectacled musicologist who never before held political office. He presides over a breakaway government that has few laws, no army, no currency, no foreign recognition and a tenuous hold on its territory...
...weren't you in some very tenuous financial positions?" asked host Phil Donahue. "And weren't you arrogant?" Naw, said several. "We just made too much money too quickly...
...well-attended, whether or not its productions were reviewed. We hope that this is true. We also hope that actors and directors do not forswear experimentation--as some suggest-- because their work could possibly be evaluated negatively in print. Is Harvard's commitment to experimental theater really so tenuous that exploring it and exposing it to more of the public would destroy...
Also to learn. Chamorro owes her election not to any natural gift for leadership but to her married name. Though graced with regal poise and an engaging personality, she has had little experience in public life. Her grasp of Nicaragua's Sisyphean economic challenge is tenuous, and her political range is narrow: at least initially, she is leaning heavily on the dozen family members and advisers who constitute her brain trust...