Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...divided its record-shattering $35 million war chest into $20 million for radio and TV ads and $15 million for field operations. Most of the spending is focused on the few dozen districts where Republicans have the most tenuous hold on their seats. In the final weeks before the election, the union will broadcast a daunting $8 million barrage of attack ads disguised as video voter guides on issues like education and Medicare...
...Vows" feature in the weddings-and-engagements section on Sundays. Once this section was a cathedral of boring probity; brides appeared to be photographed in wax, and weddings were reported as the cornerstone layings on national monuments. Now the "Vows" feature (the name itself suggests something ironic and tenuous) describes weddings that sound like the Ritz Brothers' movies, and the happy couple are sometimes photographed in such a way as to indicate that they will go directly from the altar to a mental hospital...
Security guard-police relations have always been tenuous because the role of HUPD officers and security guards in policing has always been unclear...
Last year it looked as if the initiative might rise from obscurity to supreme importance in the 1996 presidential election. The calculation went like this: the initiative appeared to be quite popular. President Clinton, on the other hand, was looking pretty tenuous for re-election. In a close race, the one state he absolutely had to win was California. If the initiative was on the ballot the same day as the presidential election, and if Clinton opposed it, and if the Republican presidential candidate endorsed it so strongly as to turn the race in California into a referendum on affirmative...
...Massachusetts Superior Court will soon issue a ruling as to whether the Crimson Sports Grille should face a six-day suspension of its liquor license for serving underage drinkers. The appeal is premised on the tenuous claim that one particular underage patron on the night of a sting operation used a fake Massachusetts driver's license to gain entry to the Grille. The bar's lawyer rightly holds the case is important because it will determine the degree of responsibility that a pub has to check the validity of a license. But we believe this issue is secondary...