None of us, after all, lives under anything that even tenuously resembles "laissez-faire" capitalism.

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With presentation software and a Web browser, Apple is stepping tenuously on more of Microsoft's toes.

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More tenuously, Luton First put up signs last year announcing that the town was twinned with Barcelona, Dublin and Athens.

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After all, Somaliland in the north has already broken away and Puntland, in the north-east, is tenuously connected to the rump of Somalia.

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But there are still some hanging on there very tenuously and it is really important that we preserve them or at least document them.

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Is there a way to do so without creating a slippery slope that limits all speech that tenuously connects to some kind of mischief?

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For a society that remains mostly poor or tenuously middle class it was not the possession of big assets that rankled so much as the flaunting of baubles, such as the flashy cars and villas in Tunisia's most exclusive districts.

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