The tenuous social safety net in modern America is especially deficient when it comes to mental health.
And the David Rice Ecker Short Story Prize winner, Emily Zhao, offers a narrative that grapples with the roles cultural, familial, and professional expected of us and the tenuous tether of safety and identity they may or may not provide.
This year I don't want to talk about ephemeral things like good food, my tenuous sense of safety living in New York in spite of ISIS and the GOP's incendiary rhetoric, or the heated toilet seat I just got for my breezy loft apartment.
Since then, interviews with Wesleyan students and administrators and a review of police and education records show not so much a troubled campus as one trying to strike a tenuous balance, between the safety of its students and its reputation as an open-minded institution where people feel free to experiment.
But while they could not be denied marriage, they were forced to wed behind closed doors, and their safety became increasingly tenuous.
This latter finding is consistent with previous reviews and indicates the evidence base for the effectiveness of testing in improving workplace safety is at best tenuous.
A concrete example of such a model, focused on shedding light on the particularly tenuous relation between production pressure and safety, has been provided by Cowing, Paté-Cornell, and Glynn (2004).
"It's proof that whatever sense of safety we have is incredibly tenuous, " Mr. Newsome said.
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), whose district includes a federal prison in Lisbon, said the safety conditions of the prisons were already tenuous due to staffing shortages, but the dangers have spiked since the shutdown.
The protagonists, a randomly thrown-together group of individuals trying to find safety amid swarms of these undead or "walkers," forge tenuous bonds based largely on a kind of desperate faith in one another's humanity.
Given the often tenuous nature of SpaceX's history with public perception of its rocket safety, the company did later publicly note that the Falcon 9 "did everything correctly," insinuating that the fault did not lie with its tech.
