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Instead of looking towards new methods of dubious efficacy, Shanker suggested that we look towards systems in other countries that have been shown to work. "If we were business people, we would look at the competition and try to see what they're doing that we're not," he said...
Because the quality of island hospitals was a little dubious, Ashkenazy says, he had to be flown back to Boston in the middle of the week to have surgery...
...absence of access to affordable, safe child care serves to keep welfare recipients in a state of dependence. Since there is no broad template for the provision of child care in this country, people must make do with makeshift arrangements that are often of dubious curricular soundness and sometimes simply dangerous. We need safe environments, affordability, year-round-access and trained staff able to provide quality care...
...with sin taxes, lawsuits, and no-smoking areas. Yet some legal experts doubt that the the Medicaid-reimbursement suits will be the decisive new weapon. Says Stephen Sugarman, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley: "My feeling is that a lot of these untried methods have a dubious likelihood of success." But as any nicotine addict knows, when people want to try to stop smoking, they're willing to try almost anything...
Then there are Winnie's dubious deals. After she announced that the A.N.C. Women's League, which she heads, was going into a tourism venture with actor Omar Sharif, 11 of the league's 25 executive-committee members resigned. Charging her with ``undemocratic behavior,'' they said she had defied the committee's veto on the deal to form Road to Freedom Tours. Her colleagues had already been upset that she had used her official position to boost a new entertainment company run by her daughter Zinzi and also by reports of her association with a woman convicted of illegal diamond...