Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...balloons and nibble on birthday cake. The observances will continue throughout the year, starting with the anniversary of Action Comics next month. The Smithsonian's exhibition of Supermanobilia will run until June in Washington. In Metropolis, Ill., they are refurbishing for summer visitors the large statue that proclaims the dubious proposition that this is "Superman's hometown." And in Cleveland, which really is Superman's hometown, a booster club that calls itself the Neverending Battle is planning an international Superman exhibition and a ticker-tape parade down Euclid Avenue in June...
Erdman, a former banker in Switzerland, knows all the tricks of pecuniary titillation. The main characters are all endowed with big bottom lines. Short, grubby Danny Lehman, the dubious hero, parlays his assets into fantasies of opulence, power and sex. Lehman is a loner who outwits the law and organized crime and favors the company of a hooker who reads Dostoyevsky. All things considered, he is more appealing than the run-of-the-mill Sammy Glick. Erdman's knowledge about money laundering and creative financing firmly establishes the novel's authority. An unabashed weakness for shady operators and a hearty...
...questionnaire will also ask a question of dubious value-- if students are satified with their "Harvard Experience." The UHS consultant responsible for the survey said they are doing this because, "in the past we have found that a student's general dissatisfaction with Harvard itself has a direct correlation to a general dissatisfaction with UHS." Such a skeptical attitude toward students with complaints is not good for any organization hoping to examine the quality of its services. This attitude could lead UHS to make the mistake of discounting any negative feedback from students who aren't satisfied with their"Harvard...
...MOST DUBIOUS PROPOSAL...
...planned a sally of their own: the Vice President was eager to launch a crowd-pleasing counterattack on live television. Within days, however, there were signs that Bush's strategy might also boomerang. Once the applause ended, Bush's testy rebuttals to Rather raised nagging qualms about his dubious involvement in the most misguided and sordid policy of the Reagan Administration...