Word: tenuousness
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...Cold War ended almost 20 years ago, but its mark on international relations is still clearly visible. An outdated relic of that tenuous time, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) no longer effectively serves its purpose of promoting peace and stability. Instead of encouraging international cooperation and peace, NATO undermines both by furthering the division of Europe into East and West. It has become an obstacle to the development of an independent and strong Europe because of its historical rivalry with Russia and its perpetuation of unnecessary U.S. involvement in Europe.The controversy surrounding membership proposals made at the NATO summit...
...part of GDP. Says Katharine Abraham, a University of Maryland professor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics chief, who headed up that effort: "One problem with these expanded measures--why I wouldn't want to see them replace GDP--is the information you base them on is too tenuous...
...recent violence in Basra shows how tenuous what passes for peace in Iraq really is. And William Odom, a retired three-star Army general, has spelled out just how shaky that alliance with the Sunnis is. "Our new Sunni friends insist on being paid for their loyalty," Odom told the Senate Foreign Relations committee last Wednesday. He cited one estimate that the U.S. military is paying a local strongman $250,000 a day to keep the peace in a 36-square mile swath of the country. "Remember, we do not own these people, we rent them - and they can break...
...Muhammad evil, prompting enraged extremists to burn churches and kill a nun in Somalia, Benedict entered into a dialogue with Islamic clerics who sent an open letter expressing a more conciliatory if sometimes critical response. None of the parties are departing from their theology, but out of frankness, a tenuous bridge seems to have been built...
...editorial reaction from around the country was more skeptical. The Atlanta Constitution, which labeled Reagan's characterization of the Soviet threat as "huckstering misimpressions," said that by "raising the remote possibility of a sci-fi defense against Soviet missiles, he risked destabilizing the U.S.-Soviet military balance?already dangerously tenuous." The Chicago Sun Times called the speech "an appalling disservice." Said the Detroit Free Press: "Reagan's vision of a 21st century in which the U.S. will be hermetically sealed against all nuclear attack provides no answer to the problem of how our national security is to best be addressed...