Word: dubiously
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...makeup is called "Zen Blush"; a new sitcom, Dharma and Greg. A designer fruit-juice container entreats, "Please recycle this bottle. It deserves to be reincarnated too." A Buddhist temple is where Al Gore came into some dubious campaign money, and monks star in computer commercials. Type buddhism into the search engine of amazon.com the Internet bookstore, and it spits back 1,200 titles, from scriptures to modern inspirational writings to a robust selection of cookbooks. And then there is Hollywood, where more and more people seem torn between a sincere desire to conquer ego and the drive...
...same Senate floor, bills to clean up the finance laws that facilitated shady but legal practices are left to wither while legal, if dubious actions are given undue attention...
...alternative and more dramatic antitobacco tactic is to portray smoking as an assault on nonsmokers via secondhand smoke. Now, secondhand smoke is certainly a nuisance. But the claim that it is a killer is highly dubious. "The statistical evidence," reported the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service in 1994, "does not appear to support a conclusion that there are substantive health effects of passive smoking...
Canned synthesizer set on bouncy autoplay, monotone Swed-glish vocals, bare-bones lyrics of dubious syntax-this is the medicine that sweet Doktor Kosmos dispenses. Of course, you'd never actually want to listen to most of it for any length of time, but it's a cute, often masterfully comic item nonetheless...
...artists and are joining A.A.R.P. and other organizations in distributing to the aged tips on how they can avoid being conned. Most of the advice seems rather elementary: Don't deal with anyone who demands that a certified check be put in the mail immediately; insist that dubious propositions be put in writing; above all, just hang up on an overly unctuous phone caller. For those who cannot bring themselves to be so rude, Somers has a softer tip: Ask the caller to hold on because someone is ringing the doorbell--and then walk away for a good long time...