Buy.com's tenuous turnaround is another upset in an unstable industry.
Last month, under government pressure, troubled SeoulBank lent yet more money to Dong Ah group, South Korea's tenth-biggest conglomerate, or chaebol, at rates hardly justified by the firm's tenuous condition.
Keeping the old rodeo rider up at nights was America's tenuous hold on its manufacturing base, which was slip, slip, slipping away, as if off a Brahman bull, and mostly to Japan.
There is a relationship between a weak yen and growth, but it's more tenuous.
Critics who think the government has no place in supporting technology innovation have a tenuous grasp of U.S. economic history.
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If the tenuous link between McCain's 2003 investigation and Boeing's downfall is exploited by rivals, his presidential campaign could take some flak.
But Colonel Qaddafi's control is tenuous, and Chinese lives are at risk.
Though most Khmer Rouge leaders are living in Pailin, a border town where the government's grip is tenuous, they no longer have an army.
But it also never hurts to be on the side of children or the U.S. in its tenuous relationship with China.
Although Iraq's political situation remains tenuous, it carries very little debt, so it has ample cash to service the bonds, Ms. Cox says.
And, though Berlioz's own faith was tenuous to nonexistent, a story as grand and essential as L'Enfance du Christ ("The Childhood of Christ") proved irresistible.
The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument on Image is capturing the first global images of the plasmasphere, a tenuous extension of the Earth's electrically charged upper atmosphere, or ionosphere.
Apple responded by saying the lawsuit was "silly" and that Cisco's trademark registration was "tenuous at best".
Time, however, made Reich's grasp on reality more tenuous, particularly after he fled to America in 1939.
No American, let alone our allies in the Middle East, can help but rejoice that the Reagan administration succeeded in taking the first, tenuous steps away from perpetual U.S. vulnerability by upgrading the Patriot air defense system to give it modest antiballistic missile capabilities.
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He went on to attribute the U.S. job struggles to a tenuous relationship between businesses and Washington.
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His government's hold on power has been tenuous in recent months amid conflicts between members of the three-party coalition.
But Muhammed, a young Tuareg employed by a British nongovernmental organization, described Bamako's hold on Konna as more tenuous than the central government was admitting.
And since Mr Tsang's own popular mandate is even more tenuous, the system is biased towards inaction.
Whether his televised confession will help or hurt Armstrong's bruised reputation and his already-tenuous defense in at least two pending lawsuits, and possibly a third, remains to be seen.
For the past 16 years, from Israel's first acceptance of the PLO as a legitimate actor to Israel's acceptance of the PLO's position that it is the Jewish state rather than the Palestinian state whose legitimacy is conditional, Israel's international position has become ever more tenuous as prospects for peace have become ever more remote.
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The symbolism of Mr Hussein's monumental architecture needs to be unambiguous to disguise the tenuous nature of his triumphs.
The report jarred the market from its tenuous balance between gradually improving economic data and the Federal Reserve's continued stimulus measures, which have been seen as providing a boost to stocks.
Having been roundly castigated for failing to give Andrew Symonds caught behind on day one - the all-rounder went on to hit an unbeaten 162 - he awarded the Australian a tenuous appeal for a catch at the wicket which ended Dravid's innings.
Meanwhile, Huntingdon's day-to-day banking arrangements with RBS were tenuous.
But the reborn Plaza's best dining opportunities are its subterranean Food Hall, where vendors such as Sushi of Gari, Tartinery and Luke's Lobster have come up with dishes that have a connection, however tenuous, to the Roaring '20s and the Gatsby era.
Dealing with her failing mother and tenuous marriage instead of returning to old habits, she finally finds the strength to believe she's good enough.
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