Word: tenuously
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...file a notice of appeal. We hope he does neither. The long and grueling impeachment trial and Senate hearings, not to mention the months of scurrilous investigation, have come to a conclusion with the ruling in this case. It is now time-especially with world affairs in such a tenuous state-for the focus to finally shift completely to matters of national security and prosperity. Judge Wright's ruling, fair and just as it is, should provide Clinton and the nation a sense of closure...
...more troubling tendency for the University indiscriminately to tell depressed students to "take time off" and that they are not fit as students. "They see time off as the fix to everything," says a junior who has survived an attempt. "Time off" deprives depressed students both of the already tenuous support system of friends and services that they have here and the incentive to admit to personal problems...
However, passage at the last meeting of a bill endorsing same-sex marriage legislations, tonight's proposed divestment bill and legislation on next Sunday's docket that endorses bringing the Reserve Offices Training Corps (ROTC) back to Harvard have upset the tenuous balance and sparked venomous debate in the council...
...every section. For instance, a guy who in a section talks about conceptions of democracy every week, even if the topic is the agricultural revolution. The first time the unexpected connection is entertaining, even surprising or insightful. After four sections, one begins to realize that the initially tenuous links are starting to wear very thin...
There are certain things that Harvard viably excludes from its history books: the oft-unfulfilled tradition of having sex in the Widener stacks, the unabridged history of the juggling club, the ingredients in emerald beef. Others are excluded on more tenuous grounds. The Harvard Ku Klux Klan falls into the latter category. You could spend an entire lifetime living at Harvard, never learning about the racism that once dominated campus affairs, unless you happened to stumble across file HUD 3502 deep within the annals of the Harvard archives. This is the story...