Still, the job growth has been tenuous: nowhere in the ballpark of what Mr. Reagan produced, certainly.
Sites containing pirated materials are often hosted in China and Russia, where government cooperation has been tenuous at best.
Mr. Mondello's hold on the chairmanship has been tenuous since November, when the party lost the state Senate.
But as an unelected, fragile alliance of varying and often conflicting political forces, its hold over the southern region has been tenuous.
Through much of 2009, investors were expecting the economy to emerge from recession — but the rebound has been tenuous and spotty, not the surge that typically occurs.
"There is a black and Latino alliance that at times has been tenuous and at times has been robust," said Hakeem Jeffries, a black assemblyman from Brooklyn.
While Harper's hold on the 308-member parliament has been tenuous during his five-year tenure, he has managed to nudge an instinctively centre-left country to the right.
Until now, the evidence for Neanderthal art has been tenuous and hotly contested, often because the works were not old enough to rule out modern humans as the real artists.
Though Heck's position with Red Bull, the corporate parent of the Major League Soccer team that is based in Salzburg, Austria, has been tenuous for several months, the final straw was the club's midweek, midday game on July 25 that was played in stifling heat and drew critical comments from the team's star player, Thierry Henry.
