Word: tenuousness
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...animosity of the Soviets or the other Arab states by entering into a meaningful peace process with Israel that would guarantee Israel security. And Begin has staked too much domestically on Camp David and the West Bank to be able to bargain with the PLO and keep his tenuous hold on parliam0entary power...
...developed an elaborate network of standards to limit judges off-the-courts behavior. Those who publicly transgress those unwritten bounds at the very least lose their legitimacy: the less fortunate, like Fortas, lose their jobs. Those monastic codes have led some justices to renounce even activities with the most tenuous ties to politics, like voting. Recent attacks on Chief Justice Warier E. Burger for advocating specific criminal code reforms, are only the most recent expressions of America's historic aversion to judicial interventionism...
...central image of a woman feeding grapes to the poet, through the vaguer evocation of nature--not nature in any specific relation to the characters in the purple scene, but as an overwhelming, quietly underlying force. Because the images are packed close, the connections between the remain deliciously tenuous, tracing, the poet's frame of mind rather than a logical, prosaic thread...
With only a tenuous five-point edge on Eliot House as the spring competition nears, though, Currier will have to muster a strong show of force against the traditional strength of the River Houses in crew if they are to finish first for the year...
...thinclads are going to have to do a lot more merely place, however, if they are to surpass talent-laden Princeton and grab the Ivy League laurels. Last weekend the Grange and Black squad narrowly defeated Harvard in the tri-meet with Yale in New Heven to take a tenuous hold on Ivy supremacy, third- and fourth-place finishes, the league title will be convincingly theirs...