Word: tenuousness
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...frustrated," says a 35-year-old vice president of the commercial lending division of a Chicago bank. "We don't have any support, so you have to do everything yourself. I don't have time to go out and develop new deals and make my objectives." Still, the tenuous employment scene fills her with enough fear that she asks to remain unnamed. "I have a good salary, so I just resign myself," she sighs...
Others suggest that underlying conflicts themselves are a means of reaching that tenuous balance...
...States, and analysts the world over? Overwhelming military force? Where do the bodies to fill the body bags come from? Certainly not Colombia, which is already pressed to fill its army as it is. Certainly not the United States, which is always wary of wars in faraway places with tenuous connections to American interests, particularly in tropical jungles. Surely, he isn’t suggesting Europe will do the job, given his disdain for their peacenik agenda. Who then? Perhaps Lee should volunteer to found the Harvard American Division for the Liberation of Colombia and get the opportuntiy...
...fringes of Indonesian Islam, but they appear to have been tolerated by a mainstream increasingly suspicious of U.S. intentions - an inclination shared by many Indonesian nationalists long hostile to agendas emanating from Washington. Megawati, like every Indonesian leader since the fall of the Suharto dictatorship in 1998, has a tenuous grip on power maintained through balancing the interests of rival political parties and the military. That has left her reluctant to engage in a battle that might turn even moderate Muslims against...
...courts’ history of overturning individual litigation is probably related to the tenuous legal arguments on which they rest. Bullock’s and other plaintiffs’ arguments require evidence that simply is not available. They argue they were not fully aware of the risks of smoking due to tobacco companies’ deceptive tactics, which included misleading advertising and understatement of health risks. Proving such an argument requires clairvoyant insight into decisions made decades ago. The plaintiff’s word should not be enough, especially when so much money is at stake...