Word: dubious
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Still, many of Hite's most shocking statistics seem dubious -- and indeed are at odds with other major studies. A 1987 Harris poll of 3,000 people found that family life is a source of great satisfaction to both men and women, with 89% saying their relationship with their partner is satisfying. A Redbook magazine survey released last month of 26,000 women found that sexual satisfaction has increased: 43% of respondents said they were "very satisfied," compared with 33% in a similar 1974 Redbook poll. Marital satisfaction was also...
...course, in discussion of a proposedlaboratory animal ordinance, the universities areportrayed as prime offenders, and Vellucci,whenever possible, recalls the days when dog-andcat-nappers stole the city's pets and sold them toHarvard for the dubious benefit of research...
...dubious honor, even for the most hard-line of Communist nations. But after months of negotiations, North Korea, the xenophobic workers' state run by Communist Leader Kim Il Sung, was publicly declared by capitalist bankers to be in default on its foreign debt. Reason: the Pyongyang government's failure to make payments on $770 million in obligations to two syndicates representing 140 banks. Other countries in the past have halted payment of debt but struck deals with foreign lenders, earning more favorable terms and fresh credits. In North Korea's case, says one European banker, "nobody in their right minds...
...dolphins were captured in 1979, after New York Investor Alan Slifka agreed to help finance a dubious dolphin-human communication experiment. It was a bust. The young dolphins, named Joe and Rosie after the late movie magnate Joseph E. Levine, who produced Day of the Dolphin (1973), and his wife Rosalie, attracted the attention of a parade of celebrities, including Phyllis Diller, Kris Kristofferson and Olivia Newton-John. Some notables even swam with the pair at Marine World/Africa USA in Redwood City, Calif...
...American 18th and 19th century art was as good as any in Europe, and that snobbery keeps this from the public, so that Americans do not know their own artistic heritage. The first proposition is flat wrong, granted a few exceptions like Copley, Homer and Eakins; the second is dubious...