Although the university was a designated land-grant college under the federal government's Morrill Act, it received insufficient annual financial assistance from the state government, and its finances remained tenuous.
Yet in a city where cultural financing is tenuous, it is important to seize on new openings as they come about.
In July, with its finances looking increasingly tenuous, Alcatel-Lucent announced plans to cut another 5,500 jobs; most observers believe they will not be the last cuts.
The Mets' hierarchy took its problems to the office of Commissioner Bud Selig on Tuesday, meeting with him to review the tenuous state of the club's finances.
If their finances or jobs are tenuous, some homeowners may be more comfortable refinancing into 30-year mortgages, then making bigger payments as often as they can, Ms. McCue said.
Those benefits nevertheless remain tenuous due to a chasm in financing.
The finances for the Explosion are tenuous, as they are for many teams starting from scratch.
"It's a legal cover," said the new finance secretary, Alberto Romulo, "no matter how tenuous and nonexistent it is".
"Today's sanction against Bank Tejarat will deepen Iran's financial isolation, make its access to hard currency even more tenuous, and further impair Iran's ability to finance its illicit nuclear program".
Page A6 CONFIDENCE VOTE IN GREECE Greece's interim government comfortably won a vote of confidence, though the unity of the coalition, which must secure crucial rescue financing and save the country from default, appeared tenuous.
