Word: dubiousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...These leaders have spent decades focusing solely on expanding the welfare state rather than aiming their criticism at poor parenting, bad schools, and high crime rates, the author contends. And Williams is also right when he notes that Sharpton, Barry, and James are all veterans of dubious, racially divisive campaigns, and that their policy accomplishments are virtually non-existent...
...minds of Harvard students. It takes no position of real weight on how much money our wealthy University offers to students or workers. It expresses only nominal support for popular causes, such as Take Back the Night.The UC can do nothing to protest against the College when it makes dubious decisions like the no-alcohol policy at this year’s Harvard-Yale tailgate, or the recent tax on donations to student groups. Meanwhile, it applauds post factum bold steps taken by the University, such as the financial aid initiative or the curricular review.In other words...
...report induced a good deal of eye-rolling: Not only was the center’s raison d’être dubious, but the proposed floor plan was incorrigibly lame...
...unveiled the U.S. Department of Education’s latest attempt to swat down the hydra-headed problems facing higher education in the United States. While the report by the Commission on the Future Higher Education illuminates many real concerns, it unfortunately chooses to prescribe as a solution a dubious system of bureaucratic oversight for the nation’s higher education system which would ill-serve the interests of our nation’s students...
...donors, part of an inquiry that has led to the arrest of three people (all deny wrongdoing). But Blair clings to 10 Downing Street, convinced he can still burnish his legacy with new domestic initiatives, as well as a plunge into Middle East peacemaking that leaves even British diplomats dubious about what leverage he can bring to bear. As a result, Labour floats in a semi-leaderless limbo - the ideal conditions for conspiracies against the heir apparent, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, 55. After a clunky conference speech, plenty of delegates worried that his dour Scottish solidity would pale...