Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disconcerting to read in your pages about the witch-hunt for chocolate [HEALTH, Sept. 2]. The enemies of chocolate, by attempting to associate it with a marijuana high through their tenuous research, have devised a reason to make this delightful treat illegal. These are people who want to eliminate all the small pleasures of life. But many of us are prepared to fight back for our chocolate. Underground chocolate factories may soon appear if legislation restricting chocolate ensues. JOEL NEUMAN Toronto...
MOSCOW: Interrupting his efforts to end the 20-month old civil war in Chechnya, Russian security chief Alexander Lebed returned to Moscow on Monday to brief Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on his progress. Although the Lebed negotiated cease-fire remains tenuous but intact, winning the truce may have been the easy part. The backdrop to the meeting between the two men is the criticism Lebed has absorbed in recent days from President Boris Yeltsin and other government officials. A meeting with Chernomyrdin is unlikely to help Lebed's cause; the Prime Minster already distrusts Lebed as an ambitious newcomer. While...
Separate from the story, Krueger's film technique movingly captures the tenuous string of moments that Manny and Lo enjoy on the run: hands under running water, ants scurrying like the two children...
Time Warner CEO Levin, meanwhile, having pulled off his dream deal, now has a firmer grip on his job, which had been considered tenuous while the merger was pending. Levin's reign has been marked by corporate turmoil, chaos in the Warner Music division and slower than promised reduction of Time Warner's $15 billion debt. The acquisition increases that figure to $17.2 billion, but increased cash flow will ease the debt service. Now Levin has to prove that his strategic vision can generate returns for the shareholders, who, since he took over in January 1993, have watched Time Warner...
...representative for Stone calls the charges "ridiculously bizarre," and in a reply published in L.A. Weekly, Stone mused about the tenuous causal links between art and reality: "Has your lawyer-husband been unfaithful? Why, then, slap a summons on John Grisham, since, after all, he wrote The Firm." While acknowledging the film had an "impact" on viewers, the director suggests that Grisham might better focus his anger on "gun-toting crazies...