During a time when NASA's budget is especially tenuous and after the Obama administration essentially put the agency's human spaceflight plans on hold, I am bewildered by NASA's plan to squander nearly $2 million in taxpayer money on radiation experiments on monkeys.
When she made "Tiny Furniture," the two were close: Dunham was making a low-budget film of tenuous, message-in-a-bottle prospects while her character, Aura, was also struggling to bring D.I.Y. videos of herself to wider attention.
International donors meeting in Jakarta gave Indonesia's government a powerful show of support today, agreeing to provide as much as $4.7 billion in credit to fill a shortage in the nation's budget and keep its tenuous economic recovery alive.
ATHENS — Offering the first real hope that Greece could emerge from a six-year recession, the government on Monday presented a draft budget for next year forecasting a tenuous return to growth.
"But the budget situation for the state is still tenuous".
And that anger on the left has made budget passage in the House much more tenuous despite the threat of a government shutdown later Thursday.
That convention is a little more tenuous in the US but still fairly solid: blocking the budget for political gain has only really been attempted by Newt Gingrich in the 1990s and by tea party republicans now.
But the episode illustrated how tenuous an actor's job security can be within a big-budget franchise, particularly when that franchise involves spandex tights and a mask.
And a look behind the scenes at many low-budget films reveal that their connections to Hollywood, whether tenuous or tangential, nonetheless prove to be significant in practical terms.
Following the signing of Lee Vaughan in the summer of 2010, Courtney's position at Kidderminster looked tenuous and the club stalled on a new contract as they were finalising their budget for the forthcoming season.
