Word: tenuousness
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...means peace. (Thus the "cold war" was a way of maintaining a tenuous peace between two belligerent superpowers. The "war against drugs" means saying "Just say no" several times and hoping that people under the influence won't take...
...while many argue that the 100-day mark serves little purpose, few can hold back in passing judgment on the chief executive's early performance, especially since he made ambitious campaign pledges of sweeping changes. Launching into detailed critiques, they both make suggestions for improvement and give tenuous nods of approval...
...takes a central image straight from the pages of James M. Cain, then expands it with a melody like a carbolic lullaby and with voice samplings from Jim Jones and George , Bush. As Triage closes, the focus narrows: to the shattered serenity of youth in China Lake and the tenuous promise of Born for Love, where a relationship can be, if not a redemption, then at least a reprieve from despair...
From there the trail grows tenuous and circumstantial. The mailbox on the Brooklyn apartment bears the names of both Elgabrowny and his cousin El Sayyid Nosair, who is serving a prison term on weapons-possession charges related to the 1990 slaying of Rabbi Meir Kahane, a Zionist zealot. Salameh is known to have worshipped at a Jersey City mosque -- actually a bare room under a leaky roof -- where he would have heard the fiery sermons of Sheik Omar Abdel- Rahman, a blind cleric from Egypt whom the U.S. government is trying to deport. The sheik vocally advocates overthrow...
Outside Gbadolite, Mobutu's hold on power is more tenuous. More than a thousand miles away in the teeming slums and decaying center of Kinshasa, Zaire's capital, hundreds of people have died in the past month in clashes with Mobutu's Israeli-trained security forces. Looting by unpaid military units has ravaged the city, obliging Belgium and France to send troops to rescue most of their remaining nationals. Both countries, joined by the U.S., have demanded that Mobutu proceed immediately with a transition to democracy that he initiated in 1990 and has since halted...