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This strategy stands in stark contrast to the last time the Liberals gained a majority. In the summer of 1974, clinging to a tenuous minority, the Liberals pushed Trudeau into the spotlight, presenting leadership as the crucial issue. He seemed unequivocally the best leader, and the Canadian electorate vested its support in him, rejecting the competent but drab alternative, Conservative Robert Stanfield...
...teams went into the final stanza with the score knotted at one apiece. Harvard freshman sensation Alex Lightfoot notched the gamewinner on an assist by junior winger Sara Fischer with a little more than half the period gone. Wesleyan threatened late but the icewomen retained their tenuous lead...
...proved convincing, not tenuous: the Crimson prevailed in all but one of the 11 events. The squad's domination of the Greater Boston meet was mere icing on a surprisingly scrumptious cake...
Unfortunately, if predictably, this line of thinking survives by the tenuous argument that the billions of dollars of arms we sold to the government of the Shah, Israel's and our training of Savak and other military personnel, 40,000 American technicians and "consultants" working for our military or private corporations on contract to the Shah, and no doubt substantial covert CIA activities as well--all of these were somehow "insufficient," and we erred in Iran only by not supporting the Shah more fully...
Yesterday, while athletes were already on the ice playing hockey in rare, pre-opening ceremonies competition, the International Olympic Committee voted to hold the 1980 summer Games in Moscow as planned, despite the threatened boycott by American athletes, making U.S. participation tenuous at best...