Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coles, whose let's-go-at-it-right-now attitude earned him the hatred of Bright fans, claimed the dubious honor of being the first player to draw a Krayer foul...
...while the finance administrator says he thinks "there is nothing inherently wrong with leveraged buyouts," many economists and politicians say the deals are economically questionable and ethically dubious...
Unfortunately, this promised conciliation seems far away. Clark's newfound commitment to gender, racial and political diversity are dubious at best. Bok has already lost the faith of the faculty, choosing a candidate whom the majority of professors opposed and committing the School to traditional forms of scholarship. Whether Clark will follow through on his promises or like Bok fail to address the interests of his fellow scholars remains to be seen...
...Bush, cutting capital gains is another miracle-grow elixir for the economy: "This will increase revenue, help savings and create new jobs." In a reprise of the dubious less-is-more assumptions that once undergirded Reaganomics, Darman argues that such a tax reduction would yield $4.8 billion in additional revenue in 1990. The logic: grateful investors would churn their portfolios in a frenzy to take advantage of the more generous tax rate. Although there is no consensus, most respected economic models challenge these assumptions. A study by the Congressional Budget Office, for example, puts the annual loss in the first...
Basing a deficit-reduction plan on the tried-and-failed notion that tax breaks for the wealthy, not specifically targeted for research and development, will spark renewed economic transactions and thereby bring in new revenue to the government seems, at best, dubious economic policy...