Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...functions he envisians: a perfectly efficient world economy, whose computers would monitor the use and allocation of resources. However, computers can only handly a limited number of variables, and Fuller's plans seem to necessitate a computer that could solve billions of equations. His faith in technology is dubious...
Selling AWACS: dubious militarily and dangerous politically...
...policy of confrontation toward the Soviet Union. We should, in all cases, avoid escalating the world-wide arms race; selling sophisticated arms to a nation in so volitile a region is a needless acceleration of world militarism. America has now armed almost every nation in the Middle East, a dubious distinction that only readies the area for a blood-batn and does nothing to foster a long-term settlement...
...transformed Spanish politics. Old issues-institutional reform, regional autonomy-have been swept aside for the time being; the balance of power among the parties has shifted. The government has launched an investigation into the coup conspiracy, but almost no one in Madrid expects major purges to follow. However dubious its loyalties, the army is too powerful to be punished and shunted out of political life. Instead, Spain's wary civilian leaders are seeking to pacify the generals, giving them, in effect, a silent veto in many areas of national policy. "We now have three chambers in the Cortes," laments...
...second chapter and type the third into the computer at the same time, but she seemed to be running on a treadmill. Her thesis adviser stopped by several times to wish her luck and check her final versions, and the look on his face appeared more and more dubious. After dinner that night, she wandered into UHS on impulse and had her blood pressure taken. It was up 20 points. A nurse told her to go to bed. She didn't. It was the fifth all-nighter...