Word: dubiousness
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...fall of 1928, Walt Disney could claim three dubious assets: a new animated cartoon character called Mickey Mouse, three short silent films featuring the spunky rodent and an idea greater than perhaps even he imagined--adding sound tracks to his little films...
...very own Halliburton. Experienced non-profit and international organizations will largely be bypassed. Judging on how it has reneged on most of its commitments to liberated Afghanistan, the U.S.’s pledge to fund Iraq’s rebuilding and help alleviate its current humanitarian crisis is dubious at best. We should not let ourselves be duped again by public-relations farces like food airdrops that can only reach an insignificant fraction of the population...
...Pudding’s supposed commitment to diversity is dubious at best and self-propagating lip service at worst. Two years ago, the concept of an “open punch” for an inherently exclusive social club was laughable. And upon judging what can only be labeled a “closed punch” this semester, the Pudding’s ability to adhere to Harvard’s non-discrimination policy is fantasy...
...view that GESO and the labor leaders of Locals 34 and 35 unions have done Yale service and maintenance workers a disservice by linking the good cause of the Locals 34 and 35 with the dubious cause of GESO. I suspect many of the rank and file union members agree, as was evidenced by low turnout by union workers all week on campus (only one or two of the campus buildings were picketed at all, most students attended class unimpeded by any picket lines). GESO does not have the interest of Yale or its students in mind. Therefore I, along...
...welfare payments, to encourage the out of work to look for jobs; amending Germany's rigid job-protection laws to allow smaller companies to take on temporary staff; and lowering state health-insurance premiums from 14.3% to 13% to bring down nonwage labor costs. The business community was dubious. "The proposals are not enough to turn the economy around on their own, let alone to cure the long-term structural malaise," said Holger Schmieding, European economist at Bank of America in London. "If more buoyant global demand does not come to the rescue soon, Germany will remain in deep trouble...