Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first week of the new Administration, only one of President Reagan's Cabinet officers remained unconfirmed: Labor Secretary-designate Raymond Donovan. A Senate committee still had questions about some allegedly dubious dealings of the Schiavone Construction Co.; Donovan was executive vice president and part owner of the firm. The FBI reported to the panel that it had developed information, which it could not confirm, that the New Jersey company's upper management was "closely aligned with organized crime...
That admission, however, seems dubious. Photo watched too much baseball to have time for girls' mysteries. She estimates that she's been to 275 baseball games. And she can answer almost any trivia question ever devised on her Cardinals...
...particular, universities have had to elaborate statistical expositions of dubious value and fill out innumerable forms and reports, often at the cost of time that could have been better spent in trying to achieve concrete results. These administrative excesses should be eliminated," Bok writes in his open letter...
Galbraith's diffidence on these matters can be overlooked with minimum difficulty, for the view of his biolographical landscape proves relentlessly fascinating. The journey begins on the Ontario farm where young Ken grew up, proceeds to the aforementioned dubious triumphs at OAC, then to the more highfalutin precincts of graduate study at the University of California at Berkeley (which he loved), Princeton (hated) and, eventually, in 1934, Harvard...
...father's leadership at the White House, this countries [sic] Armed Services are going to be rebuilt and strengthened. We at Dana Ingalls Profile want to be involved in that process." Though Reagan's pitch was not illegal, it struck at least one ranking bureaucrat as "a dubious sort of behavior." Added J. Jackson Walter, director of the Office of Government Ethics of Michael's name-dropping: "Why doesn't he just use a hammer...