Word: tenuously
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...been a decade since South Vietnam fell, ending America's latest debacle overseas. Backfire suggests that the lessons of Vietnam are not so much how to light and deleat a political insurgency in a foreign country, but how tenuous are our claims to the right and ability...
...Radcliffe Union of students opposes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. we recognize that this is an issue which requires the attention of the entire University community. Therefore, we ask the Committee on College life to discuss the tenuous situation of gay men and lesbians on campus with an aim towards strongly urging the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to adopt a statement of non-discrimination which includes the words "sexual orientation...
...charter specified "faculty members," rather than "faculty and administrators," because only tenured professors have the job security and independence necessary to render objective judgement on delicate matters facing the University. It is possible that nontenured faculty members and administrators could find themselves in a situation in which their sometimes tenuous career status could influence their position on an issue before the Committee...
Early this week, some semblance of normal life was beginning, ever so tentatively, to return to the capital. Banks opened, residents ventured into the streets again, and vendors reappeared in market areas. But the tranquillity seemed tenuous. While combat troops patrolled the city in olive armed personnel carriers and Jeeps mounted with machine guns, tan-uniformed policemen wielding bamboo sticks stood guard at every street corner. That, however, was no guarantee of law-and-order. Two TIME photographers were attacked by Hindu toughs who smashed the glasses of one and tore two cameras from the neck of the other...
...McCrystal is thus quashed in one of his many attempts to withdraw from his tenuous involvement in the Irish Republican Army. He is a mild-natured young man who falls into the organization's web by innocently doing a friend a favor and becomes a reluctant pawn. He is a peripheral puppet, rather than an 'actor', on the political stage. The father he lives with and the woman he grows to love remain non-actors. Nevertheless, the Irish 'Troubles' permeate to the core of their lives. Fear and tragedy are etched indellibly on to these, and the other characters, that...