Word: dubious
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...anti-Hugel faction at the CIA, sometimes using members of an "old boy" network of former agents, pushed for a quick Casey kill. It fed Goldwater the dubious information that Casey had emerged from Multiponics' bankruptcy in 1971 with a profit of some $750,000; he insisted he had lost almost his entire $145,000 investment. The same CIA sources apparently spread a false report that Casey and Hugel had planned a covert operation aimed at the "ultimate" removal of Libya's Strongman Muammar Gadaffi from power. Misinformation was leaked to Newsweek that the House Intelligence Committee...
...diaries begin Dec. 27, 1935, shortly after he arrived in Ma nila to help Douglas MacArthur build a Philippine defense force. He was 45 and a major, with dubious prospects for advancement; like Grant before Fort Sumter, he was waiting for events. The last entry is dated March 14, 1967, two years before his death. Again like Grant, he had been elevated to the presidency - tout served with far greater success. In 1962 Historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr. asked 75 prominent "students of American history" to rate the Presidents up to 1961. Eisenhower, the 34th and last in line, came...
...battle. Consequently the R.D.F. could not fight its way ashore to start a major campaign; all present schemes for its deployment assume that it will be invited in by a friendly government. That might happen in the case of Saudi Arabia but, to put it mildly, it is a dubious proposition in Iran...
...intended to foil any Soviet strike by baffling the enemy: unaware of each missile's actual location, the Soviets would be obliged to target all 4,600 MX shelters to guarantee success. But the drag strip system has been assailed by critics (including Presidential Candidate Reagan) as technologically dubious and ridiculously expensive. Two months ago the powerful, conservative Mormon church joined the naysayers, beseeching the White House not to station the MX in Utah and Nevada. Then a brace of hawkish Republicans, Senators Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Jake Garn of Utah, marched into the Pentagon with their...
...proposed cuts in the arts budget mirror other Reagan recommendations, and the reaction of those affected has been typically loud, though of dubious value. Art may not seem of paramount importance to the average American, especially as he watches the Social Security system go under. And that is what makes these cuts all the more serious, those affected say. Rather than try to instill a sense of culture as a factor in education, the cuts reduce the arts once again to a secondary position. The outcome of this battle will be instructive. Our government is reducing the bread it provides...