Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dubious honor, Egger makes $70,800 a year and has the odd pleasure of living all the time among the tax tables. He loves it. He is one of the world's great orderers, sorters and Roscoe Egger waiting for returns storers of paper, and the IRS process ranks
Fried: Well, Richard, when you speak of justice, then that suggests that people should be on a faculty at a major university because a group they purport to represent, and that representation is itself a very troublesome and dubious notion, but a group that they purport to represent is owed, as it were, a certain proportion of seats It's the United Nations conception of a university...
...burden of proof must always lie with the government when it makes such charges of international gravity. But Meselson's position only appears convincing if he is given the benefit of the doubt on each separate point--a dubious proposition at best...
...entrenched standards. Two examples: in the mid-1960s the minicomputers emerged and captured a sizable portion of the market once dominated by big mainframe computers; in the late 1970s microcomputers took business away from both mainframes and minis. Now Apple's Macintosh may be providing another example of dubious conventional wisdom...
...have that funding in spite of the fact that we're a divinity school," Rupp says. "It's been very clear from the foundations that we're giving this to you because we like your women's studies program, but we're dubious about the fact that you're a religious organization...