Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fails to draw the connection between alcoholism and the authors' work, beyond pointing to the eventual decline of their writing. Most of the connections he does make are tenuous, and much of the book seems contrived...
...strains of tenuous reasoning dominated the proceedings. First, council members appeared eager to relieve themselves of the guilt of calling for ROTC's return the week before. This guilt was heaped upon them by anti ROTC protesters who claimed that the council is constitutionally prohibited from endorsing ROTC because the military excludes gays...
...because there was much to ponder, and much of it good. America's friends, allies, trading partners and imitators in the region are thriving. Capitalism has boomed, and democracy has made tenuous but still significant progress. Meanwhile, America's onetime enemies are either realigning or undergoing a potentially millennial transformation, or both. In China "modernization" is a euphemism for de-communization. Viet Nam is pulling its troops out of Kampuchea and liberalizing its joint-venture laws to permit greater ownership by foreign investors. Even the hermit tyranny of North Korea has agreed to cooperate with a Seoul businessman...
...doubts that the so-called Ivan the Terrible, a Treblinka guard, committed some of the most savage crimes of the war, including cutting flesh from live human beings. The question is, are Demjanjuk and Ivan the Terrible the same man? The Israeli prosecutors say yes, but their case is tenuous at best...
...moment, Afghanistan's major cities remain in government hands, thanks largely to massive Soviet bombing attacks in recent weeks. But no one expects Najibullah's tenuous grip on the country to hold for long. Rebel commanders in the field, who sense that a military victory is within reach, are not going to let that long-sought opportunity slip away. The only remaining question seems to be precisely how they will take the cities. Full- scale assaults are tempting, but the mujahedin insurgents fear that the civilian toll may be high and that a successful attack may draw Soviet retribution from...