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...inserting himself into the tenure selection process before the faculty has its say, Summers could potentially skew the selection of new tenured professors. That Summers now has the power to choose the ad hoc committee members while simultaneously chairing such a committee is a dubious change indeed...
...pocket and have nobody to bargain on their behalf. Other government and private health plans use their purchasing power to blunt drug prices. They also steer patients toward cost-effective drugs by refusing to pay full freight for expensive brand-name drugs, whose claims to extra effectiveness are often dubious...
...criticized for its excessive "conditionality" - dozens of requirements imposed on countries as a condition for their receiving assistance. In the East Asia crisis, countries in desperate need of funds had to acquiesce to conditions that had nothing to do with the crisis and which, in some cases, were of dubious economic merit. While in the U.S., the Federal Reserve focuses on inflation, growth and employment, the IMF insisted that Korea focus exclusively on inflation - even though Korea did not have an inflation problem (unemployment was a more pressing concern). Conditionality not only undermined democratic processes, but the huge number...
Thinning also seems of dubious merit in many mixed-severity fire regimes, except as a protective measure around the perimeter of communities. Consider, for example, the Biscuit fire that hopped and skipped across 500,000 acres in southern Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest last year. Slightly more than 15% of this rugged, geologically complex region was so seriously burned that virtually all the trees died. Around 65%, however, experienced fires of light and moderate severity, while some 20% escaped unscathed. Seed from areas where vegetation survived is already drifting into areas where vegetation was lost, and many important species--knobcone...
That was about it. And the finer critical minds were always dubious about him. "Bob Hope is a good radio comedian, with a pleasing presence, but not much more," critic James Agee wrote in his lament for the passing of comedy's Golden Age. Hope lacked Groucho's surrealism, Fields' misanthropy, Chaplin's soul, not to mention that element of the grotesque they all shared. Dapper and a trifle distant in his suit and tie, he also lacked their patience in building and extending gag sequences. Typical American that he was, he always wanted the instant gratification...