Word: dubiousness
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...YEARS AGO IN TIME The Abramoff scandal is only the latest example of dubious money sources greasing politicians' palms. In 1980, the Abscam controversy spotlighted CONGRESSIONAL CORRUPTION...
...growing number of deals being made "and they're asking: Are we being too cautious?" It remains to be seen whether this round of dealmaking will be more successful than the last one, when many firms got caught up in merger frenzy and ended up overpaying for sometimes dubious assets. Several of Europe's biggest companies succumbed, including German automaker DaimlerChrysler, which only recently unwound a costly investment in Japan's Mitsubishi Motors, and France's Vivendi Universal, which briefly teetered close to bankruptcy in 2002 after a huge acquisition binge by its former ceo Jean-Marie Messier. Morgan Stanley...
...think that he was one of them. Director-writer-narrator Werner Herzog, a man whose great subjects have been extremists (see Aguirre, The Wrath of God), combines hundreds of hours of video tape Treadwell shot over the years and interviews with people who knew Treadwell to create an ironic, dubious, compelling portrait of a man succumbing to madness without losing his chipper, childlike spirit. People keep saying that Treadwell "crossed the line" that separates man from beast, which is surely true. But he also crossed the line between sanity and insanity, and as intimate portrait of that process this film...
Howard Stern calls himself the King of All Media, but in his three decades of radio broadcasting he has also earned a more dubious crown: the King of All Fines. Stern, who hosted his last FM-radio show on Friday, has cost stations that carry his program nearly $3 million in FCC penalties for indecency. He didn?t help his cause when in 1992 he infamously declared on the air that he hoped the prostate cancer of an FCC commissioner would spread through his body. ?When I get angry and really fired up... I will say vicious things,? he told...
...writing his dissertation in Japanese medical history. His criticism appeared in a Dec. 10 article published in the British Medical Journal. Doshi’s article raised three main points of contention: an alleged misrepresentation on the CDC website, alleged inconsistencies in the CDC data, and a dubious causality between flu and deaths caused by pneumonia. Doshi told The Crimson that his interest in the topic sparked after the CDC reported an increase in the average annual death rate, in 2003, from 20,000 to 36,000. According to Doshi, the CDC made a strong connection between pneumonia-related deaths...