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Most cannot, and baseball should be able to find ways to share the wealth without risking its tenuous but growing popularity by locking out players in pursuit of a salary cap.

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The new bill will make this argument more tenuous, as it says that consent must be "free and informed, specific, prior and revocable",

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Admittedly, as my quest progressed, the connections to Shelley’s tale became more tenuous.

He was doing well—had learned to walk on time and was enjoying preschool, two things that were never guaranteed—but his success felt tenuous.

“There is a very tenuous calm,” said Patrick Ryan, chief investment strategist at Madison Investments.

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