Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fluke. He applied to only one other school--tiny Hillsdale College in northeast Indiana, an institution popular in conservative circles for its free market philosophy and refusal to accept federal financial support. But Harvard Basketball Coach Frank McLaughlin happens to be a long-time family friend and convinced the dubious Bremenite to submit an application here. "I knew nothing about Harvard except that it was THE great school," says Elliott, who at a stocky 5ft. 10-in. showed no promise as a basketball player...
...Brantley, Solidarity's international legal counsel and currently a research fellow at the Law School, is even more dubious about the symbolism of Harvard's invitation. "I'm not sure Harvard intended to send out any implicit messages, especially in light of its own record of labor relations," she says...
...debate was not merely over the activities involved, although they were indeed controversial. What caused greater worry was the fact that, at least in theory, the operation was secret, evoking disquieting memories of dubious CIA ventures that had backfired in the past. After a decade of discomfort over even the thought of using covert action to interfere in the affairs of other nations, President Reagan was unabashedly restoring the role of that weapon by supporting contra guerrillas fighting the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua...
...morticians who travel the streets each morning to collect the bodies of those summarily dispatched the night before by Salvadoran security forces." He said the U.S. ought to take up the offer made by some rebel leaders to negotiate a settlement, a prospect most analysts regard as highly dubious...
...France's Institute of International Relations, the debate over new nuclear weapons is taking place in an environment in which there is "no satanic mantle and no ideal, no evil and no angels." Said Moïsi: "How do you educate people to the dubious charms of the balance of power? We are in a different world-a mixture of vague idealism and a lot of cynicism regarding power politics, a dangerous amalgam that sees the two superpowers as equally mediocre. What we have lost is the sense of what we are defending, what makes deterrence worthwhile...