Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This interest is more than a bit paradoxical. Europeans remain as dubious as ever that an effective missile defense can be built at all, and fear that it would endanger rather than protect them if it could be. The reasoning: the system could zap Soviet missiles headed for the U.S. but not those aimed at Western Europe, because flight times to targets there are so short. In addition, if the U.S. had a defensive shell, it might be less likely to go on | viewing its security and that of Western Europe as inextricably linked. Europe's safety can be guaranteed...
...traditional role of odd man out at economic summits, adamantly refused to set an early--or any--date for trade negotiations. He voiced varied objections: that the talks had to be carefully prepared; that they ought to be linked to a monetary-reform conference, about which the U.S. is dubious; most of all, that trade talks might hatch a deal on agricultural products that would hurt French farmers...
...MAJORITY EDITORIAL wrongly gives approval to last work's takeover of the University building at 17 Quincy St, which was a strategically inappropriate and morally dubious course of action. Civil disobedience is a time-honored form of protest, but it is hard to see how the circumstances last week merited the illegal seizure of Harvard property. No matter how much the protesters claim to the contrary, they disrupted University business and caused undue mental anguish to the secretaries and other staffers in the building, who have nothing to do with Harvard's investment policy. Just what one wonders, did they...
...beautiful city on the Elbe, 98 miles south of Berlin. Dresden was called "the German Florence" because of its magnificent rococo art collections and baroque buildings. It had very little strategic value, especially that late in the war, and had escaped Allied bombing attacks until 1945. But for very dubious reasons, the Allies ruthlessly fire-bombed the refuges-packed city on February 13-14, 1945, creating a firestorm that could be seen for 200 miles. Though the numbers of deaths have been disputed, the figure quoted by historian David Irving, author of "The Destruction of Dresden...
...Dubious Government billings. In 1982 alone, General Dynamics asked the Pentagon to pay $18.9 million in overhead costs run up by company headquarters. Among the charges: $491,840 for Lewis' personal flights on corporate jets, often to and from his farm in Albany, Ga.; $538,781 for contributions and memberships, including country-club fees for top executives; and $155 for the kenneling of a dog named Fursten while its owner, a General Dynamics executive, attended a company conference at a South Carolina resort. At last week's hearing, Dingell quizzed Lewis about a $571.25 charge for a king-size Serta...