Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more reserved. Having spent most of the past seven years in prison, under house arrest or in exile, Kim would go no further than to declare that "people's power has brought this about." Park Chan Jong, chairman of the main opposition party's policy committee, was more dubious still. Said he: "Many things cannot be seen by the eyes and are very difficult to change...
...Many of the ways in which the Government uses its data banks seem at least reasonable. The Internal Revenue Service, for example, uses computer searches to withhold tax refunds from people who have defaulted on federal loans. But other intrusions on privacy are far more dubious. One agency concerned with press leaks matched the telephone records of its employees to the phone numbers of prominent Washington reporters...
Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy was dubious. Said he to the obscure University of Minnesota professor: "They tell me you're an economist, but you're the first that I've met from outside Cambridge, Mass." Kennedy, however, quickly got over his hesitation about accepting advice from someone unconnected with either Harvard or M.I.T. Walter Heller was so persuasive -- and so adept at translating economic jargon into everyday language -- that the whole nation came to listen, and profit. When he died last week of a heart attack at 71, he had been out of Government office for 23 years...
...Delta! The old United Airlines is aiming to make a comeback -- under new leadership. And forget about that weird name Allegis, which Builder Donald Trump said was "better suited to the next world-class disease." The new chairman plans to scuttle that moniker, along with the company's dubious strategy of being a sprawling travel conglomerate that rents cars and runs hotels. From now on, United will concentrate on the airline business, this time with its pilots eyeing roles in the boardroom as well as in the cockpit. After years of inner turmoil, the company is determined to recapture...
...mention that being honest is back in style. Unethical behavior is less tolerated today; hence many dubious activities that were once ignored are at last being confronted and corrected. Self-indulgence is not unique to "America's national character," as you imply. It is a characteristic of all people...