Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begin with, says Caddell, voters these days "are both questioning and harsh" about all politicians. "A certain skepticism has been built in over the past half-decade, since Watergate." One result is that voters are extremely dubious about the ability of a challenger to do a better job than even a widely unpopular incumbent...
...building big cars. As a consequence, Ford today has the fewest small economical models. Meanwhile, in order to boost quarterly sales figures, Chrysler during the '70s pushed questionable products onto the market on a near panic basis. One result: the 1974 Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volare have the dubious distinction of being two of the most recalled cars in history. Operating on the industry's fringe, American Motors Corp.'s small cars failed to win wide buyer approval. Its profits came largely from the popular, though fuel-thirsty, four-wheel-drive Jeep...
Abroad is a graceful elegy to travel in the old sense, which involved much more than missed connections and dubious food. Fussell quotes approvingly Samuel Johnson's dictum that "the use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." There was a time when people went out into the world not knowing what they would find. Instead of cameras, they carried notebooks and writing implements. They wrote about what they had never seen before for people who would probably never...
...gesture was symbolic, since the western portion of the city has served as Israel's capital for 30 years, and the Israelis have occupied the rest of the city since the Six-Day War of 1967. But the bill's effect, as with so many of the dubious actions that have attended the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, was to strengthen Israel's enemies and to confound its allies. Lamented Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, a disappointed opponent of the bill: "Whom did it help? I see what confusion it has created, even among our friends...
Something of the same forlorn shabbiness seemed to cling to F. Donald Nixon, Richard's younger brother, whose dubious business deals included a shadowy $205,000 loan from Howard Hughes. Richard, Big Brother indeed, actually had Don's telephone tapped for more than a year in order to keep track of him. Which brother ultimately embarrassed the other more remains a tossup...