Word: tenuousness
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...drama of the recent discoveries, scientists still have a very tenuous understanding of the structure and dynamics of the core. Nonetheless, other areas of geology have advanced enough to give scientists a reasonably consistent idea of how the overall picture fits together. Says Subir Banerjee, a geophysicist at the University of Minnesota: "In every discipline, our measuring capabilities have gone up so much that we are at last able to home in on the earth's core by a number of techniques." For scientists who have long struggled to penetrate the mysteries at the center of the earth, solving...
...errors are ones of substance as well as style. Scheim expertly rehashes previous arguments linking the Mafia to JFK's assassination, but it is difficult to tell which, if any, of his arguments are really new. In addition, Scheim rests his case on a tenuous and largely speculative connection between Oswald and the Mafia...
...questions arise: Can Dukakis pull together the quarrelsome factions of his party? Can he and Jackson live together constructively? Can he lure back the millions of disaffected Democrats who supported Ronald Reagan in 1984? Although for the moment at least Dukakis leads Bush in national surveys, his advantage is tenuous -- and so is the Democratic coalition...
...relatively small and extremely financially tenuous undergraduate organization, the William James Society, like many other Harvard clubs, attempts to increase awareness of its existence on campus in many ways and tries to sponsor events that will interest the university community at large. While the William James Society had gone to great lengths to plan and publicize this event, our organization was not even mentioned in the article. This was distressing to me personally for two reasons. First, without the recognition which we are due, members who helped to plan this event feel unappreciated and unrewarded. Second, the article was devoid...
Beyond its internal inconsistencies and contradiction of all major scientific theories, Sheldrake's grasp of his own scientific inheritance is so tenuous as to cast suspicion on his hypothesis. The entire first third of The Presence of the Past, and much of the rest of the work, is an idiosyncratic intellectual history of science, from which Sheldrake picks or reinterprets as he wishes. There are times when he misrepresents the facts, and times when he gets them wrong. For example, his statement that memory is not at all localizable in the brain--evidence to Sheldrake that...