Word: tenuousness
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...attempt to include a positive representation of varying sexual orientations alongside its previous goals of racial diversity and body acceptance. However, some members of the Harvard community worry that the controversial show might again mishandle such sensitive and complex issues in its primary ambition to entertain. A TENUOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH BLACKCASTEver since its inception 15 years ago, Eleganza has implored students to “walk the runway, redefine beauty, and change a life.” The fashion show was originally founded by Harvard’s BlackCAST, a student organization which, according to its constitution...
...that Mugabe had the right to invest in Hong Kong real estate. "Hong Kong is a free port ... even Falun Gong practitioners can buy a property there," said the unnamed official. The connection between a marginalized religious sect and a tyrant in power for three decades may be tenuous, but, for Zimbabweans, half of whom face malnutrition, it must elicit the most cynical, if fleeting, of smiles...
...state has a law that mandates vaccination before a child enters public school. States do, however, provide exemptions for medical, religious, and philosophical reasons—and parents have started to request exemptions on the basis of flawed science. Parents who invoke such exemptions as a response to the tenuous evidence and specious reasoning that promote a claim debunked by scientists are truly doing a disservice to all children. The incidence rate of measles has sharply risen over the past few years; more people were infected from January to July 2008 than during any other time since...
...Harvard’s director of community relations Kevin A. McCluskey ’76 said in an interview that the connection between Harvard’s excavation and the influx of rats was tenuous, and that the University employs a “very aggressive and thorough pre-construction program” that anticipated rodent displacement from the work site. He also pointed out that an explanation for the rat influx might be the failure of community members to dispose of trash properly in rat-proof garbage bins...
...landscape, where bison and elk find warm patches of open ground to browse. We who live here, it has been said, do so at the mercy of geology. In much of the West, with its long seismic faults and Yellowstone-centered hot spots, it is for humans a sublimely tenuous coexistence with the earth's fickle tectonic temperaments...