Word: dubiousness
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...national law code. The U.S. embassy in Monrovia found it had to pay Banks' company $5,000 for its 20 copies, says one Western diplomat; in theory, Liberian courts must do the same. The U.N. panel believes the firm's "grounds for claiming copyright are questionable and ethically dubious." Little wonder that Johnson Sirleaf struggles. "The President's default position is to do the right thing," says the diplomat. "When she makes the wrong decision - and it does happen - it is because the local political pressure is overwhelming...
These residents’ status as indigenous, even, seems dubious. Although the Galapagos were discovered in the sixteenth century, the islands were left abandoned and uninhabited until 1832, when Ecuador, the nearest mainland nation, claimed possession. Settlement before some 30 years ago was on a piecemeal scale. Several plantations cropped up, but they were fueled mostly by forced and temporary convict labor...
...grand strategy of the USSR (which dissolved in 1989). The pair's personal favorite, though, is Dee Snyder's Teenage Survival Guide, a book by the lead singer of the '80s metal band Twisted Sister - a man whose qualifications to guide teenagers through their formative years are dubious...
Emerging markets have often been unkind to banks. Unstable governments, dubious corporate management practices and wild swings in investor confidence can make the developing world far less predictable than the more advanced economies of the West. But the current financial crisis has stood a lot of the conventional wisdom on its head. As the Wall Street subprime meltdown sent prominent banks in the U.S. and Europe tumbling, financial institutions doing most of their business in developing countries have come through the crisis looking healthier - and smarter...
What it does export is invariably shrouded in mystery. Pyongyang exists frozen outside the global economy and raises funds through a host of backdoor activities, including the manufacture of counterfeit money and dissemination of its military secrets and technological capabilities to a whole network of dubious customers. As a consequence of Pyongyang's recent bellicose behavior, a new U.N. resolution passed this June forbids the country from exporting arms and authorizes member states to search North Korean vessels suspected to be carrying them, though they must first seek Pyongyang's legal consent - effectively, a non-starter. Nevertheless, the U.S.S. John...