Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't matter how many women are elected to Congress today or in the future. As long as there are no society-wide provisions to help people cope with the increasing complexities of modern life, then the tenuous scaffolding that many of us have erected to support our individual enterprises will collapse...
...Harvard defense did hold the Northeastern attack to one goal, even if that grasp seemed to be as tenuous as possible...
...that is exactly what Rabin has done ever since the peace accords were signed. His hold on power is tenuous, as the Labor party only controls a few more seats than the right-wing Likud, and in another election he could very well lose. His ruling coalition is fragile as well, barely holding the majority of seats...
Broadway, that fabulous invalid, never looked frailer or more gallant, never seemed more aware of its glorious past and its tenuous future, than on Tony Award night this past June. Musty old plays and musicals hogged the spotlight from newer works. Producer George Abbott, 106 years old and looking every minute of it, showed up to remind the assembled swells and the TV audience that Damn Yankees, which he had confected four decades ago, was again the liveliest show in town. The cathedral of commercial theater had reopened as a museum and a mausoleum. The place was awash in memories...
...have allowed major players in the telecom and cable business to compete in each other's territories, and would have sped up the development of the i-highway. But Senator Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) was forced to pull the plug after Republican Robert Dole of Kansas broke a tenuous congressional consensus and came out against the bill. The legislation had significant goodies for consumers, says TIME Washington Correspondent Suneel Rattan. "They've tried deregulation in the U.K. and they've had lower prices and better and more kinds of services," says Rattan. Deregulation here seems inevitable, with several court...