Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the townsfolk seem undecided about leaving, they are unanimous on one point: their outrage at the Government's handling of the chemical-pollution scare. Said 30-year Resident Evelyn Zufall: "They should have known more before they came to us and disrupted our lives." The townsfolk seem dubious about Government promises. Said Leonard Massey, organizer of an auction to raise funds for residents: "Do it yourself. Don't let the Government...
...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the year began inauspiciously. She had achieved the dubious distinction of being Britain's least popular national leader on record and her Conservative government had dropped to a humiliating 29% approval rating in opinion polls. The newly formed Social Democratic Party was running strong, and within her own Conservative Party there was considerable grumbling about her hard-line economic policies, which had brought high unemployment and an ever increasing number of bankruptcies...
Bulgarian agents have engaged in a number of dubious activities on behalf of the Soviet Union throughout the world. For years Western intelligence experts have believed that Bulgaria shipped millions of dollars worth of arms to right-wing terrorists in Turkey, helping create the anarchy that almost toppled the Turkish government in 1979. According to Israeli intelligence officials, more than 1,000 Palestinian terrorists have been trained in Bulgarian camps over the past decade, and all the heavy armaments used by the P.L.O. in Lebanon were shipped from the Black Sea port of Varna. Nicaragua's former Ambassador...
...economists were also dubious about a White House-backed plan that would raise the federal gasoline tax by 5? per gal., so that the revenues raised could be used to put 320,000 people to work repairing highways, bridges and mass-transit systems. While agreeing that such restoration projects were needed, the board members pointed out that the increased tax would probably reduce consumer spending and might destroy more jobs than it created. Said Heller: "This is an anti-jobs bill...
Brazil has the dubious distinction of being the largest international debtor in the developing world; the country's public institutions and private businesses owe an estimated $87 billion to foreign creditors, $67 billion of it to banks. As TIME's Board of Economists met last week, some were fearful that the cash-strapped South American nation would default, an event that could shatter the increasingly fragile international banking system. The possibility sent world financial leaders scrambling to prevent a crisis...