Word: tenuousness
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...Ting said. “We got the ball back in the circle and just started shooting frantically. Gretchen was able to bury a rebound off of Aline’s shot. It was a great example of offensive persistence.” But in order to make a tenuous one-goal lead stand up, the team needed to play excellent defense throughout the second half. Numerous individual efforts highlighted the effective defense which stood in front of Conolly. “What’s important about our defense is that we communicate very well with each other...
...being waged across much of the U.S. Americans are now predominantly a coastal people, drawn to the shores for work and play. Yet their presence at the water's edge threatens the natural barriers that should be shielding them. In Louisiana, the Mississippi River has been lashed into tenuous submission, its absorbent delta constricted and carved into channels for oil pipelines and navigation routes. In Alabama and Mississippi, the playground of the Gulf Coast has been developed to the edge of the open water, rebuilt bigger and more audaciously after each storm that wipes...
...armed men. But since then, coordination between four once disparate left-wing guerrilla groups has improved following the creation of a coalition known as the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity. The rebels mount sporadic urban terrorist attacks but operate mainly in border areas where military control is tenuous...
...world's goods are making companies and their workers wealthy, from Latin American cattle ranchers to French vineyards. In the U.S., the ever increasing flood of low-priced Chinese products has enabled rising standards of living for years (even as it has made job security in some areas more tenuous...
When Summers appeared before a group of scholars at a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference on Jan. 14, his relationship with FAS professors was already tenuous, strained by disagreements over his treatment of faculty and an impression of a lack of transparency...