Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East and West -- met to produce a steaming and sensuous vortex, like the collision of two ocean currents." The only shadow on this idyllic scene is the restive presence of the Palestinians, and keeping tabs on them and their leaders becomes Tom's job. Before long he establishes a tenuous contact with Jamal Ramlawi, a handsome, brooding young man reputed to be a rising star in the largest guerrilla organization. Jamal refuses to spy directly for Rogers and the CIA, but he does offer liaison, a system of sharing information between his organization and the U.S. Rogers' superiors back...
...Khomeini's Iran may finally come not from the battlefield but from the country's almost suicidal tendency to cut itself off from the rest of the world. Each time Iran begins to make overtures to other nations, it seems instinctively to stop and pull back. Tehran's tenuous links with Washington, Paris and London have all been shattered in the past year. So too have been the painstaking efforts of some Iranian leaders to improve ties with Saudi Arabia. Whether Iran can leave such traits behind will ultimately rest with Khomeini's successors. All the indications are that...
...President claimed that amnesty is necessary to avert a civil war, but human rights groups were incensed. Bristled Lawyer Marcello Parrilli: "The bill guarantees the impunity of people who committed atrocious crimes." Alfonsin's action, though, recognizes the enduring power of the military and Argentina's tenuous grip on democracy...
Unfortunately for Shoeless Joe Jackson, though, this statistic is "not officially recognized" by Major League Baseball because of Joe's ever-so-tenuous connection with the Black Sox game-fixing scandal of 1919. In an Orwellian fashion hardly expected from the national pasttime of a free country, Joe was banned from the game and his name was expunged from the recond books. This was despite the overwhelming evidence supporting his claim that he always played his hardest (he led both teams with a .375 average in the 1919 Series, and his twelve hits would still stand as a Series record...
...Representatives struck a highly commendable stand in favor of higher education last week when it passed a budget that aims to increase funding for education programs by $2.2 billion. Against this background it is particularly galling that Senate support for its scaled-down version of the House increases is tenuous at best...