Word: tenuousness
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...provided, in 31 pages, what he calls "adjustment assistance," which would be given to workers who lose their jobs as a result of foreign competition. However, the method he outlines for determining if the job loss is in fact an instance of displacement by imports is incredibly complex and tenuous. Some economists have stated that it must be entirely reworked...
False Teeth. On the hustings. Sir Roy ("Royboy" to his jovial white audiences) is a shouting, sweating but engaging demagogue, his inevitable red suspenders maintaining a tenuous hold on his tentlike trousers. When his speech grows indistinct, he merrily apologizes for his badly fitting false teeth. He accuses Britain of "pandering to pan-Africanism." has called London's Lancaster House, where the Rhodesian constitutional conferences took place, "that place of infamy...
...this and other senses, Taylor has, I think, really begun the serious historiography of the War. But one need not therefore consider the book some kind "tenuous first step on the long, hard road to understanding." It is, and will remain, a masterpiece of historical writing...
There is nothing, nothing in this world, sloppier than a Marx Brothers movie. The relationship of any given scene to the one before it or the one after it is tenuous at best. The lavish production numbers are unbelievably horrible. And as for acting--what acting...
...make an enormous, formal, issue of Cuba's role in the O.A.S. shows all too well how bureaucrats will behave when there is no substantive definition of policy behind them. The Alliance has started slowly and jerkily as it is, and surely the Administration realises how fragile and tenuous an instrument of progress it must be. By diverting attention from the goals of the first conference to the irrelevant questions of the second, the U.S. has dealt the Alliance a bad blow in its weakest moments. This was to be an era of liberal and realistic attitudes toward Latin America...