Word: tenuously
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...causal relationship between birth to a Harvard graduate and increased odds of admission to Harvard is tenuous at best. You are correct in referring to children of Harvard alumni as "the fortuitously-born." Such children were truly fortunate to be born to parents who, as indicated by their attendance to Harvard, value education and intellectual pursuits...
Tutu's relationship to the other overseers was more than a bit tenuous. He had been nominated for the Board by an upstart activist group, and won despite earnest efforts by several Harvard officials to block his election...
...staff editorial by The Harvard Crimson ("Justified, but Insensitive," Feb. 8) reminded me of this destructive editorializing act--reminding me that, as a gay man, I had better remember my assigned rank and file on the battlefield of newsprint because my social position was tenuous and dependent, and therefore subject to attack...
Dawn Steel, the first woman to run a Hollywood studio, knew she would have only a short time to prove herself in that notoriously tenuous job. But when she quit last week after two years as president of Columbia Pictures, she had made her mark. After taking over the job from prickly British producer David Puttnam, who had alienated Hollywood's power brokers, Steel put Columbia back on track by enlisting such top names as director Mike Nichols and megastar Michael Douglas...
...afterword, Wing can dispel any illusions we might have had that the story was a novel--for in reality, she writes, it was her life--and she can once again emphasize the tenuous connections between author and subject and the multiplicities of "I" when she says: "My tale has no end. Like Chinese boxes within boxes, like Russian dolls within dolls, like an onion peeling back its skin, we go on revealing our hearts in the hope that they may never stop beating...