Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game as co-holder of the longest current non-winning streak in all of Division 1-A and 1-AA football. The Lions have gone 14 games in a row without a victory, and that ties them with Tennessee Tech--also in Division 1-AA--for the dubious honor...
...fact be voluntary; her guards are also employees of an unscrupulous international arms dealer; the macho Spenser must rely on help from a lesbian journalist and a matronly psychotherapist; and the perilous rescue turns into a wantonly bloody and ignoble business, achieved with the connivance of morally dubious U.S. Government agencies...
...tycoon himself has had little to say of late. Turner announced that he would respond to CBS's petitions by next week and is "confident that the FCC will find no reason to block our offer." But Wall Street remains dubious about Turner's chances. Though he has offered CBS stockholders securities that he values at 175 a share, analysts estimate their worth at around 130. CBS stock now trades far below that level. It closed last week...
...trade or nullified by their editors or derailed by their own greed ^ and ambition. In the climax of the plot, the forces of virtue, somewhat tarnished themselves, are gulled into printing a libel that undoes their chances of stopping an evil publisher. Like too many journalists, these dubious heroes simply believe what people tell them and thus are easily misled...
...widely conceded, however, that the U.S. must continue SDI research, if only to guard against a Soviet breakthrough. Even the European allies that are most dubious about the possibility or desirability of missile defense endorse that view. They add a strictly pragmatic justification: the U.S. is going ahead with or without their participation -- and if European allies are to stay abreast of the latest technology and retain their political influence over American decisions, they had better ante up and get into the game...