Word: dubiousness
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...bills. Hamieh received expensive presents in return from his grateful clients. One gift was a brand-new Porsche which Hamieh, unaware of the car's status value, blithely destroyed in a matter of days by driving it over rugged dirt tracks to visit his poppy fields. He has the dubious honor of being the only Lebanese on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of international narcotics "kingpins." Although Hamieh says he retired years ago, he still occasionally receives foreign drug traffickers hoping to entice him back to his old ways. "The police are always watching...
...Driven by a most dubious agenda, shortsighted cut-and-paste bloggers, lacking all the facts, have made a feeble attempt at being crack reporters. This is an aberrant attempt to distract the American people from what the real issues are. Hard working American families need affordable health insurance...
...utter and total sandbagging of the undergraduate community. But even if one gets past the manner in which the nixing of the Party Fund was handled, University Hall’s assertion that the campus will be somehow “safer” without it is extremely dubious. In reality, it appears from his letter that Pilbeam left a crucial element of student safety completely out of his calculus.Quashing UC-funded parties—which occur on campus and in areas regulated by the College—will not stop students from drinking. Instead, the party scene will...
Italian Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli has swaggered into the genteel world of antiquities like a new sheriff in town. And for many of the world's top museums, which have long trotted out treasures with dubious origins, his message is simple: this cocktail party is over. Just ask the highbrow crowd at the J. Paul Getty museum, which was finally forced to sign a deal with Rutelli last week to return 40 artifacts that were illegally taken from Italian soil. "This is a fresh start for Getty," Rutelli told TIME. "They are aware that an era is over...
Beyond the dubious utility of the SAT and other tests in assessing the fitness of an applicant for admission, several studies have shown that SAT scores, even after the test’s recent revision, unfairly discriminate against specific groups. For example, a 1995 study of the SAT showed that whites scored consistently higher than black and Hispanic students, and that the scores of all groups rise with family income. In 2007, the New York Times reported that the latest round of SAT scores continued to show a significant disparity between the scores of white, affluent students and their minority...