Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) has held a tenuous one vote majority on both the city council and the school committee since 1989, observers say they expect the balance of power to shift to the alliance...
...TENUOUS LIAISON...
...this in Croatia, which the U.N. liked to consider a tenuous success compared to the ongoing debacle in Bosnia. The attack on Zagreb marked a new nadir of humiliation for U.N. peacekeepers, who were variously ignored by attacking Croats, taken hostage by Krajina Serbs and dropped into the midst of a fire fight when they returned to the sector on Thursday under the scant cover of a U.N.-declared cease-fire. U.N. special representative Yasushi Akashi, who is head of the U.N.'s peacekeeping operation in the former Yugoslavia, managed after the second round of rockets to engineer a cease...
...more than a decade now, but despite huge investments of research money and intellectual capital, medical science still has no effective weapon against the disease--and no definite idea of what such a weapon would even look like. Under these demoralizing conditions, any scrap of progress, no matter how tenuous, triggers an enormous surge of hope. It happened again last week with a report in the New England Journal of Medicine: doctors at UCLA announced that a five-year-old boy, infected with HIV at birth, has been symptom-free ever since. More important, over the past four years...
...play where crows wax philosophical on a swing (garbed in beautiful masks by Lara Ho) and there's no worse fate than "hauling grease from the grease pits," we are given up to the fantastical premise that while this world's continuity is tenuous at best, word and image are nevertheless inexorably linked. The ways in which Levine and his crew convey and actualize metaphor on stage are striking and, perhaps most importantly, watchable in the extreme...