Word: dubiously
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Batt tried out his idea on colleagues. Many were dubious. But hospital board chairman Darryl Brown, son of a Maine dirt farmer who cut brush on the county road to pay his property taxes, weighed in with his opinion. They would...
...fair fight. Under the law, the burden of proof in many cases would fall to the government instead of the accused, and mistreated taxpayers would have the right to sue the IRS for damages. In addition, unlucky divorces caught holding the bag wouldn't always be responsible for the dubious accounting of their former spouses...
...remove Explorer if they so desire; and let online services that have Windows deals promote the Netscape browser anyway. Microsoft responds that stripping Explorer from Windows 98 would mean rewriting significant parts of an operating system that contains 18.2 million lines of code, thus greatly hampering its release--a dubious definition of consumer protection...
Some important folks believe legislation represents the best chance for eradicating junk e-mail. I'm dubious: U.S. laws can be enforced only within U.S. borders. Unfortunately, a bill sponsored by Senators Frank Murkowski (R., Alaska) and Robert Torricelli (D., N.J.), which unanimously passed the Senate on May 13 and is being considered by the House, might actually aggravate the spam scene. The bill would fine junk mailers who hide their return addresses--that is, the vast majority of spammers. It would require them to list their real snail-mail addresses, telephone numbers and legal names. And supposedly, spammers would...
Good questions, but a distraction from the main point: Why are the President and his State Department reduced to head-shaking stupefaction because a rising country of a billion people wants entry into the nuclear club? If India's blast is evidence of an American failure--a dubious proposition--it is a failure not of intelligence but of imagination...