Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surface of Mars--where the sky is salmon and Earth is a blue morning star--you probably would have noticed the spaceship coming. It may have been the noise the thing made that caught your attention; although the Martian atmosphere is spent and shredded, it's not too tenuous to carry sound. And it's certainly not too tenuous to make anything that tries to punch through it pay the price, causing the interloper to glow like a meteor as it plunged toward a touchdown somewhere on the ancient world. That you couldn't have missed...
...possible. Why not scrap the project after the blueprints for the spacecraft and the mission plan had been written and all the key calculations had been completed? In part, it is because one cannot know with certainty whether something is possible until it has been done. Theory stands upon tenuous soil where there are not facts to back...
...plead guilty to fraud and tax evasion in bilking the Rose Law Firm and his former clients out of almost $500,000, they say they would never have put their own reputations on the line. But in the days after Hubbell resigned in April 1994, his situation had only tenuous connections to the broader Whitewater questions that were beginning to envelop the White House. Still to come, for instance, was the revelation that Hubbell had spirited Hillary's Whitewater-related records from the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, to his basement in Washington. Hubbell also continued to maintain...
...addition to their brains, the nuns have provided Snowdon with a wealth of biochemical and behavioral information-- blood samples, test scores and even autobiographical sketches written in their teens and 20s. Last year, Snowdon and his colleagues caused a stir when they found a tantalizing if tenuous connection between the nuns' schoolgirl writing styles and the likelihood of developing Alzheimer's later on. Out of a group of 25 nuns who died between 1991 and 1995, the researchers reported, those whose writing samples contained the lowest density of ideas per paragraph were the most likely to develop Alzheimer's. Could...
...that knowledge is tamped down because the stakes are so high. To voice any doubts might jeopardize our tenuous hold on first trimester abortions and could give aid and succor to the other side, which ranges from morons who kill doctors to the rank and file who would protect zygotes. Give those people a month and they will take nine. It will be you, your doctor and Jesse Helms at the sonogram...