Word: dubiousness
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...than continue an imperfect but effective policy--begun by his father and continued by Bill Clinton--of containing Iraqis with sanctions, a no-fly zone and the occasional clocker to the head, Bush simply decided that containment wasn't working anymore. The Administration spent millions to prop up a dubious group of Iraqi exiles led by Ahmad Chalabi--former Central Command boss Anthony Zinni has called them "the Gucci guerrillas from London"--who helped generate the secret "intelligence" needed to create a rationale for pre-emptive war. Much of the intelligence turned out to be flawed or confected, and when...
Technical glitches with the computerized database itself caused students’ records to disappear or to be associated with the wrong school, users of a pilot program complained. And because the system was used to screen for dubious records, the bug-ridden system could have brought hundreds of legitimate students under scrutiny by federal investigators...
Nevertheless, the steps proposed in the report are inadequate. The committee’s recommendations for improving the quality of Teaching Fellows (TFs), for instance, are dubious at best. The report recommends that fellowships be created for outstanding TFs and that training in assisting with and evaluating written and oral presentations be required of all TFs. But while fellowships might inspire the best TFs to work harder, it is hard to imagine the unlikely prospect of a fellowship transforming indifferent TFs into motivated ones. Moreover, the type of generalized (read: fluffy) pedagogical training TFs are likely to receive...
...does not represent a significant financial burden. This line of argumentation misses the point. What does matter is the fact that the increase represents an increase from $35 to $75 for each student and would more than double the Undergraduate Council’s budget. While it is dubious to suggest that students wouldn’t miss $40 apiece, it is wholly ludicrous that an addition of $200,000 to the student government’s budget is a trifling affair...
...statutes in U.S. history. It was a law designed to fit all circumstances. It covered existing plants whose owners could be forced to clean up their dumps. It covered polluted sites long since abandoned by their owners: defunct factories, refineries and mines. Even when companies followed the standard, if dubious, practices of the day--dumping toxic waste in rivers, burying it in leaky drums or just leaving it, as in Oklahoma, to blow in the wind--they would be held accountable. And if they refused to clean up their messes, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would do so for them...