Word: dubiousness
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...vacuum' or 'vacuum cooking'?" Within months, however, they had completed the first prototype, an ungainly contraption whose three pieces were joined by long hoses and cables. "We called it our garage model," says Martínez, "because it looked like something a mechanic would put together." So dubious was the machine's appearance that, when the team was stopped for a road inspection on its way to present the Gastrovac at a conference in San Sebastián, they spent two hours convincing the Civil Guard that the contraption in the trunk was intended for cooking vegetables...
...Beware of Dubious Teaching Secrets The media crowned a study as the answer to the Boy Crisis - but the study's "proven" effects are negligible at best
...Mainline. It is taught in hundreds of non-Pentecostal Bible studies. One Pennsylvania Lutheran pastor even made it the basis for a sermon series for Lent, when Christians usually meditate on why Jesus was having His Worst Life Then. Says the Rev. Chappell Temple, a Methodist minister with the dubious distinction of pastoring Houston's other Lakewood Church (Lakewood United Methodist), an hour north of Osteen's: "Prosperity Lite is everywhere in Christian culture. Go into any Christian bookstore, and see what they're offering...
...Beware of Dubious Teaching Secrets The media crowned a study as the answer to the Boy Crisis - but the study's "proven" effects are negligible at best
Corrupt politicians are as much a part of Brazilian life as exquisitely skilled soccer stars, carnival queens and scantily clad beach babes. One post-war politician in Sao Paulo state won three terms as mayor and governor with the dubious endorsement that "he steals, but he gets things done." Former president Fernando Collor de Mello was impeached in 1992 over a corruption scandal, and in 2001 it was revealed that fraudsters had bled an astonishing $2 billion from two government agencies established to help the country's poor...