Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard told the clubs they had to go co-ed or go private. The offer, while it allowed Harvard to claim the moral high ground, protected the clubs from the rigors of integration. That Harvard did not force its finals clubs to go co-ed suggests some rather dubious intentions on the part of the administrators responsible for student life...
...deal with the epidemic, Reagan appointed a presidential commission of 13 people, many with dubious qualifications. After three months, the chairman, a doctor, resigned in frustration and was replaced by an admiral. The commission's final recommendations are supposed to appear next summer. Beyond that, the Administration busied itself in imposing compulsory AIDS tests on certain defenseless groups (federal prisoners and would-be immigrants, for instance), a move that compromised civil rights without accomplishing much of anything. Gay rights groups excoriated the Administration for inactivity, and the New York Times concluded that Reagan's lack of a coherent policy...
...seeds that shake, rattle and roll south of the border. Most audiences could not pick it out of a percussion lineup, and concert managers flee at the very mention of its name. For Leigh Howard Stevens, to be the world's greatest classical marimbist must sometimes seem a dubious achievement...
Ironically, it will be the task of his successor to undo much of that dubious bequest under pressure from a Kremlin leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who is now promoting many of the reforms that Husak suppressed. Whether Jakes (pronounced Ya-kesh) is the right man for that job is hotly debated. A colorless Soviet-trained bureaucrat who presided over a sweeping purge in the early 1970s, he hardly qualifies as new blood. In an interview with TIME, Dissident Playwright Vaclav Havel called Jakes a "man without a specific face, without his own ideas." On the other hand, said Havel...
...ever the true-blue loyalist, has given the INF deal unqualified support. In the Senate, which must approve the agreement by a two- thirds vote if it is to take effect, a hard core of perhaps a dozen conservative Republicans is mobilizing to block ratification, and many more are dubious. One tactic they are likely to follow is proposing amendments, such as one making ratification contingent on proof that the Soviets are scrupulously observing previous treaties...