Word: dubiousness
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Certain efforts are being made in the economics department, which has finally climbed out of last place—a dubious honor now held by applied mathematics. The department has done more to publicize professors’ office hours and has, for the first time in its history, given the position of Director of Undergraduate Education (or “head tutor”) to a senior Faculty member...
...Absolute Worst Enron, the U.S. energy giant that brought the trading of electricity, oil and natural gas to the Internet, was once considered among the most innovative of companies. Then a combination of slumping energy prices, dubious accounting and trading practices, management hubris and a pile of debt brought the firm to its knees. Though 4,000 employees lost their jobs, the now bankrupt company did manage one last spending surge: it paid $55 million to 500 of its "critical" executives to persuade them to stay...
...League schools regardless of their financial need. The plan, proposed by Brown President Ruth J. Simmons, should be implemented in February after its approval by the university’s governing corporation. This change, which Simmons stated was one of her top priorities, will end Brown’s dubious distinction of being the last Ivy League university to consider students’ financial need as a factor in admissions decisions. Brown still has to face the challenge of implementing the switch to a need-blind policy, at an estimated cost of $3 to $8 million dollars...
...place a bag with a bomb on a plane and then fail to board it. The FAA move will be over the objection of U.S. airlines, which have argued that such bag matching is impractical in a system that handles 1.4 billion bags a year, and of dubious value in an age of suicide bombers...
Deciding to publicize a threat is only half the battle, of course. Assessing its credibility is the real challenge, and it has never been greater. On any given day, the various human and electronic sources the CIA consults, many of dubious reliability, generate 40 to 100 new threats. These are now compiled in a daily report known as the "threat matrix," which is distributed to top national security and intelligence officials...