Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even though the accords promise them an end to the eleven years of Israeli military rule and also guarantee them domestic autonomy. The improvement in the Palestinians' status falls far short of their goal of independence, but some moderate Palestinians believe it would be advantageous to grasp even the tenuous levers of self-government that Israel offers. Says Hatim Abu-Ghazaleh, 42, a Gaza physician: "Our basic national duty is to engage the Israelis in a political dialogue." Adds Abdel Attrif, 61, former mayor of the West Bank village of Ein Yabrud: "Camp David was not that bad. It means...
...Harvard Corporation's decision to retain its security holdings in Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., considerably weakens the already tenuous policy it has adopted toward investments in companies operating in and lending to South Africa. It also demonstrates the difficulties inherent in implementing the ACSR recommendations set forth as guidelines in the Corporation report of April...
...with leeway in its interpretation--strict or loose--of the policy adopted by the bank. Harvard needs to define more clearly its criteria and procedures for evaluating institutions dealing with South Africa. Otherwise, the case-by-case evaluation will be nothing but a semblence of commitment to the already tenuous policy outlined in the Corporation report. The community cannot be satisfied with tacit private assurances...
...Washington, when U.S. policymakers look at the same map, they do not see a Kremlin blueprint taking form, but they are nonetheless deeply concerned. They can imagine a "Finlandized" or neutralized Turkey, a Sovietized Afghanistan, a Balkanized Pakistan and an Iran in some still unpredictable state of disarray. Politically tenuous and strategically crucial, this band of non-Arab Islamic countries stretches from the Bosporus in the west to the Hindu Kush in the east?nearly 3,000 miles of buffer between Russia and the warm waters of the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. It is potentially...
Mike Bruhert twirled a four-hit shutout for the New York Mets as they sacked the front-running Phillies, 2-0, in Philadelphia. The loss engineered by the bat of ex-Yankee Elliott Maddox, cut the Phillies' National League East lead to a tenuous two games as the surging Pirates commandeered a 5-3 win over the Montreal Expos...