Word: tenuously
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...influence the outcome of disputes. As a result, when the National Committee convened in Washington last week to select the temporary credentials chairman for 1972, there was more than casual interest in the election. When it was over, several liberal presidential contenders had possibly been set back, and the tenuous bond that held regulars and reformers together had become sorely strained...
...Tenuous Alliance. For his project, Corry zeroed in on 85th Street between Central Park and Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side, largely because of its diversity. A kind of Manhattan in microcosm, the block includes among its 1,500 black, white and Puerto Rican residents a number of welfare families, a man who owns his own ad agency, some composers, some middle-class types, and a few hookers and junkies. Corry rented an apartment on the street, then set out to find "The Real City" from the stoops and sidewalks...
...community, a "good block" with "good buildings" housing "good people." Yet the homiest of the five articles to run so far-long treatises on the comity of the postman and the everyday frustrations of shopping-fail to dispel the notion that New York neighborliness is little more than a tenuous alliance. In fact, Corry's best piece so far lists the precautions taken by residents of the "good block" to keep from being robbed, raped, beaten or killed: "George Bassat keeps a club next to his front door. Mr. Brouwer no longer sits on his stoop, because...
...White Majority, "Big factories are probably the most integrated work-places in society"), it is still present. But it is present as a result of social-economic conditions. Scapegoating gives a perverted sense of status and meaning to the lives of many steel-workers. In addition, the often tenuous economic position of the white majority is thought to be threatened by black advances. It is easier to direct alienation against what seems to be a visible threat than to confront the more fundamental but also more remote and impersonal capitalist power structure...
...virtually controlled by a closely knit power structure that is systematically stripping California's resources for immense profits. The report claims that a mere 25 landowners-24 of them corporations-hold 13% of all private land and that many of these holdings were illegally acquired. The charges are tenuous, since they are based on the shadowy history of 19th century land grants...