Word: dubiousness
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...necessary because reducing emissions has a cost that most people feel outweighs the benefits. Furthermore, that point runs contrary to the rest of her column, in which she claims that advances in energy-saving technology are not enough to stop global warming. The expert she quotes to make her dubious economic argument says, “The savings in energy will pay for the cost of technology that’s needed to reduce energy consumption.” This is an argument in favor of focusing on technological advancement, rather than an emissions cap, but she tries...
...earlier this year. "It is the Iranian missiles that we're worried about." But if the best those missiles could carry is conventional explosives, the case for deploying the missile defense system in the face of the heavy diplomatic cost and financial burden ($4 billion through 2013) becomes increasingly dubious. For one thing, the Pentagon faces mounting bills of tens of billions of dollars to "reset" the U.S. military - replacing everything worn out in Afghanistan and Iraq - over the coming decade...
...status quo that only increases costs for everyone else? Well, their fear is that if we provide basic primary care to the nation’s children, we are one step closer to “socialized” medicine and the land of Lenin. This may sound like dubious logic, but there’s an element of truth...
...withdrew its trademark application in all categories except for four: furniture, pillows, mirrors and chair pads. "I guess that's workable," said Jim Raneri, a co-owner of Charles department store, housed in one of the buildings that made the Move back in 1897. Others in town were more dubious. "I have a hunch, give her an inch, she'll take a mile," said Tom Kiley, a co-owner of the photo shop Katonah Image. Yet for any town that's ever fought a giant, the result was heartening. Maybe Katonah will lose something by having its name trademarked...
...campaigns, said Sheila Krumholz, of the Center For Responsive Politics. But given the implausibility of $1,000 contributions by dishwashers and cooks - at least to people outside Chinatown - she suggested that "ideally they would go beyond the letter of the law and not accept something so willingly that is dubious regardless of what these folks say." She added: "When you're delivering the fund raising job to a bevy of bundlers, you need to make sure the procedures are tight. It really is incumbent on the candidates, campaigns and political parties to bring out the magnifying glass. If they...