Word: dubiousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...quite effective in encouraging attendance. Although some students may have grumbled that they didn’t have food nearby when they had work to do, the two dining halls that remained open should have been more than enough to satisfy their appetites (and, we are dubious of the idea that many students had much work during shopping period). More importantly, by closing the dining halls, students who might not normally go to something like the Harvard State Fair went out and wound up having a ball. By breaking traditional prejudices against carnivals, concerts, and parties, closing dining halls...
...NASA's manned space program had a truly good idea. The shuttle has done some wondrous work, but has cost too much and achieved too little. The space station continues to hemmorhage money and return not a whit of good science. So space watchers had good reason to be dubious yesterday when NASA at last pulled back the curtain on its plans for the next generation of spacecraft intended to return human beings back to the moon. As it turned out, the plan is an awfully good one-sort...
...world through thick glasses and expecting to find vegetarian cuisine in the depths of a country where sausage appears to be the national dish--is not entirely prepared for the ministrations of his tour guides. They operate a grandly named organization called Heritage Tours, which consists of a dubious car and eccentric employees: Alex (Eugene Hutz), who says he enjoys writing but really wants to be an accountant; and Alex's grandfather (Boris Leskin), the driver, who claims to be blind and to require the services of "a seeing eye b____" named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. Alex...
...with road games against the preseason big three—Brown, Harvard, and Penn—highlighting the second half of the schedule, the Tigers will fizzle down the stretch once again, stumbling to a 2-5 Ivy finish and making Hughes’ future at Princeton even more dubious...
...Bono was dubious at first about joining up ("I thought rock was ugly"), and the Edge at these early stages "didn't ever consider the band as anything other than a worthwhile thing to do on Wednesday afternoons." Mullen, the youngest of the group, could only dream of a career, while Bono and the Edge were getting on with their education and taking their final exams. Clayton, however, had been booted out of Mount Temple, and worried about "commitment" from the others. He hustled hard, trying to force their hand, and made contact with McGuinness...