Word: tenuousness
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...Singapore. Diplomatically, the Tunku got tough. He severed relations with Indonesia and with the Philippine government, which sponsored some anti-Malaysia demonstrations of its own-in support of tenuous Filipino claims to North Borneo. Then Abdul Rahman alerted the Malayan army reserve against the possibility that Sukarno might try to infiltrate Sarawak and North Borneo with guerrilla troops...
...light of the Alliance's slow start and the widespread criticism of it, congressional impatience is understandable. But the danger is that a sharp cut in the aid funds might well, as Moscoso warns, cause the U.S. to "lose the tenuous but specific initiative we have gained in Latin America during the last two years...
...result of the worldwide steel situation, the French have already chopped back their long-range expansion goals for steel, and Belgium's giant new Sidmar mill will open in 1965 with one-third less capacity than originally planned. A tenuous "gentleman's agreement" was reached recently between Common Market, British and Japanese steelmen to stop undercutting, but the agreement does not seem to have made much difference. Most steelmakers see little easing of the competition until steel consumption begins to rise among the 80% of the world's population living in the developing nations...
...link between the beauty of life and this flagrant numerification is a decidedly tenuous one. There was a time when identification by number was punishment reserved for criminals alone; now it has become the lot of every individual. This is an evil tendency which should surely be resisted...
White business men, of course, view this difference as the prop on which their tranquility rests. They are assured of the support of most of Chestertown's Negro leaders, whose security still depends upon their approval. This is an increasingly tenuous sort of arrangement; yet for the past 15 years it has managed to satisfy the Negro community, providing it with unmistakable signs of material progress while masking the fact that Chestertown has not even begun to achieve actual integration...