Word: tenuously
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...Tenuous and temporary as their grip may be, the Kurds of Iraq have come tantalizingly close to something like their centuries-old dream: a state of their own. Sheltering behind a security guarantee from the U.S.-led coalition, cut off from the south by a military blockade, the long-suffering Kurds have taken control of a 15,000-sq.-mi. slice of the country...
...place of the Soviet Union, there are 15 separate nations and something called the Commonwealth of Independent States, which provides a tenuous framework for cooperation among 11 of them. The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have already reclaimed their status as separate competitors. Seven other former republics are not competing. But five states -- Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan -- will participate jointly at the Winter Games. Members of the so-called Unified Team wear the traditional red-white-and-light-gray uniforms of the former Soviet Union, but will be allowed to display the name, flag or symbol...
...high, aptly named saw grass. But the discomfort of being hacked at by razor-sharp weeds became fond memories when the trail suddenly zoomed up the mountain at a 70 degrees incline. For almost a mile straight up, there was less a path than a series of tenuous toeholds dug into sticky red clay. Several other equally steep but shorter climbs that followed made the six-mile journey a five-hour ordeal...
...process that will force him to higher consciousness begins when his car breaks down in a bad neighborhood and his life is threatened by a menacing gang, then saved by Simon (Danny Glover), a lonely tow-truck operator. The episode is Mack's first lesson in just how tenuous our grip on normality...
...Woods typifies the theatre of David Mamet, taking us into the depths of postmodern relational angst. Cristopher Scully's Leverett House production presents the emotional isolation of a man and a woman whose love affair becomes destructive at worst, tenuous at best...