Word: dubious
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Many Americans are surprised by the range and quality of Mexican health care. "I was very dubious at first about coming here for dental work," recalls Mark Hamilton, a San Diego telecommunications consultant who came to Goldstein in Tijuana in 1983 for root-canal treatment. "But now I am convinced that not only is it cheaper, but also I am getting superior dentistry. They care more down here." He recalls once Goldstein even picked him up at the San Ysidro border crossing in her own car and dropped him off again after the appointment. Says...
...role of graduate students in research: one of the major issues in the recent meeting of the staff of the Center for Research in Personality was the degree to which experiments in scientifically dubious areas such as psilocybin were a legitimate part of the training of graduate students...
...heat. At their fourth annual conference last March in Nottingham -- from which white journalists were banned -- delegates called for the repeal of Britain's immigration controls. They also drafted a statement describing the police as a "force of intimidation" in local housing projects and demanding an "end to their dubious presence in the schools...
Much of the criticism of the Reagan Administration's push for a 600-ship Navy has been that it is designed for a dubious new mission: threatening the Soviet mainland during the early stages of a superpower showdown. Journalist Jack Beatty, writing in the May issue of the Atlantic magazine, argues that the Navy should concentrate more on its less glamorous time-honored role -- which happens to be what the Stark was doing last week. One problem, however, is that the vulnerability and cost of America's large aircraft carriers mean that the Navy does not feel safe stationing...
...match the U.S. or Soviet military presence in that far-flung region. Japan's constitution prohibits deployment by warships beyond 1,000 nautical miles from the home islands except on training cruises. That forces Japanese tankers to either restrict their operations in the gulf or sail unprotected under the dubious cover of night. Britain keeps only two frigates in gulf waters on a rotating basis, and France, which has four destroyers stationed in the western Indian Ocean, shows the flag from time to time by sending these warships into the gulf to provide a display of "dissuasive presence...