Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...design, by Ashley Martin-Davis, effectively denotes the school as the focal point of the town's struggle with the forces of change. Chris Parry's lighting enhances the set with its subtle colors, evoking the tenuous purity of the town...
Violations against the tenuous cease-fire negotiated by ex-President Jimmy Carter are serious enough to justify a special trip by Lt. Gen. Sir Michael Rose -- the top U.N. commander in the area -- to northwest Bosnia. Rose announced that he would fly to the Bihac region -- the site of the most serious cease-fire violations -- tomorrow in an effort to save the truce. Rose's mission: Rein in the Croatian Serbs, who haven't signed on to Carter's truce. Under the agreement, which took effect Saturday, the government and the Bosnian Serbs agreed to a one-week cease-fire...
...clear the way for new elections, staking his future on the belief that voters will sweep him back into office and silence his critics. "The government will resign tomorrow and tomorrow begins a long election campaign," Tatarella told state television, referring to Wednesday's parliamentary session. Berlusconi led his tenuous, three-coalition Forza Italy, or Let's Go, Italy, party to victory in March, largely on promises to clean up widespread government corruption. But the combination of anti-graft prosecutors focusing on bribery allegations involving Berlusconi companies and constant bickering within his coalition have brought the new government...
...contingency plans to drop the atomic bomb on China in the 1950s. The National Archives today released an April 17, 1954 memo (signed by the secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Eisenhower Administration), which spells out plans to bomb China if the Chinese violated the tenuous truce that ended the Korean War. "In light of the enemy capability to launch a massive ground offensive, U.S. air support operations, including use of atomic weapons, will be employed to inflict maximum destruction of enemy forces," the memo says. (Eisenhower later admitted to using nuclear brinkmanship to move along...
Throughout most of the game, Harvard and Colby traded goals, with Harvard maintaining a tenuous one-goal lead. But then Colby took the lead to 5 with a late score and garnered the victory...