• It would be a pity if the book's dubious title discouraged a wider readership.

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  • But a longtime family friend is dubious about Hashim's investment in a political campaign that arguably never stood a chance.

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  • This gives the managers two bites at the apple, and it's a dubious prosecutorial practice that is frowned upon by most courts.

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  • The chips contain 3 grams of total fat and fewer than 250 mgs of sodium, which fits the company's dubious definition of a more healthful snack, ( see graphic), compared with 10 grams of total fat and 290 mgs of sodium in Cheetos.

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  • Nacer Chadli's poked shot gave Twente hope but a dubious penalty allowed Pavlyuchenko to add a Spurs third and Gareth Bale's late goal sealed victory.

    BBC: Tottenham 4-1 FC Twente

  • KLA's war to secede from Serbia would create a dubious precedent (with possible repercussions for Turkey's war against its own armed Kurdish separatists) and stoke dangerous tension with Russia.

    ECONOMIST: Ending conflict in Kosovo | The

  • Pikelet is drawn to a danger greater than 20-footers: the dubious charms of Sando's wife, Eva, a former daredevil skier embittered by a knee injury that has terminated her own exhilaration on the slopes.

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  • That's a lot of action for what began as a dubious idea.

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  • UN, Iraq's government reversed a dubious decision that would have made it virtually impossible for Sunni Arabs and other opponents of the country's draft constitution to block it in a referendum due on October 15th.

    ECONOMIST: Turkey and the EU

  • That's because the dubious honor went to a car Consumer Reports also calls "sumptuous, " "quiet and luxurious" and "a delight to drive": the Mercedes-Benz S-Class.

    FORBES: Over-Engineering 101

  • They suspect the group of conspiring to further Mr Berlusconi's interests with a mix of dubious blandishments and dirty tricks.

    ECONOMIST: The latest Italian scandal

  • That turkey, called the "PSD and Title V Permitting Guidance for Greenhouse Gasses, " came stuffed with constitutionally dubious prerogatives that extend the EPA's influence over a vast swathe of industrial sectors.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Former Justice Secretary Jack Straw has mounted a high-profile campaign against what he says is the large increase in dubious whiplash claims, tabling a private member's bill in 2011 urging reform of motor insurance.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • Wichita State got here by beating the best: No. 2-seeded Ohio State on Saturday, and before that, top seed Gonzaga, whose No. 1 ranking in the polls entering the tournament had a dubious, "World's Greatest Cup of Coffee" feel.

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  • If Mr Buhari were to appear, he could be asked, for example, about the bungled attempt in 1984 to kidnap a dubious Nigerian politician, Umaru Dikko, who was found bound in a crate at London's Heathrow airport.

    ECONOMIST: Nigeria

  • Michael Schumacher rode shotgun for Irvine, gifting the Northern Irishman the win and making Hakkinen's race a total misery with some pretty dubious behaviour.

    BBC: Hamilton cannot take title for granted

  • So it proved 10 minutes into the second half when Knight headed home Jensen's corner, though the dubious goals panel may want a look after it deflected off Stefanovic.

    BBC: Portsmouth 1-1 Fulham

  • Besides clumsy diplomacy and dubious economic policy, a big worry concerns the government's attitude to public institutions.

    ECONOMIST: Poland's awkward government

  • If, as Sargent and Cook seem to wish, Republicans were so weak as to be dissuaded from doing their duty by a handful of dubious poll numbers, it's unlikely they'd win many elections and certain they wouldn't deserve to.

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  • The stage is thus set for a possibly decisive struggle over the future direction of Russian reform with enormous implications for U.S. interests in general and for a slew of dubious Clinton Administration initiatives toward the former Soviet Union, in particular.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Yeltsin Finally Moves Against The Communist Parliament; Clinton Titters When Serious US Response Is Needed

  • Many shieldmakers claim to eliminate nearly all handset radiation a dubious assertion because that would effectively squelch the phone's radio signal.

    FORBES: Shield sham

  • Many shieldmakers claim to eliminate nearly all handset radiation a dubious assertion because that would effectively squelch the phone's radio signal.

    FORBES: Shield sham

  • LeBron James and company's 62 wins also put the Marlins in danger of a dubious distinction: joining the all-time city Hall of Shame.

    WSJ: The Heat May Be Too Much for the Marlins

  • Mr Putin last month replaced Kabardino-Balkaria's veteran ruler with a businessman perhaps on the dubious principle that already-rich people find it easier to resist corruption.

    ECONOMIST: Caucasian dominoes | The

  • The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency Director Muhammad ElBaradei is a man of dubious integrity.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: El-Baradei's nuclear policy

  • The company has a dubious aroma to it: past ties to the Jehovah's Witnesses and appearances in the lists of stocks hyped by spammers.

    FORBES: How to get 51mpg from an engine the size of a large turkey.

  • Still, it could be worse: Mr Grasso's last prominent directorship was at Computer Associates, a company plagued by dubious accounting and mismanaged stock options.

    ECONOMIST: Wall Street

  • Now that a new republic has been built on these dubious foundations, Croatia's relations with the western world as black sheep or promising partner hang in the balance.

    ECONOMIST: Franjo Tudjman, awkward Balkan survivor

  • In effect - and especially as employed by the Obama administration - the CIA has become the president's private army, with a classified budget, contracts with some extremely dubious operatives and under-the-table relations with thuggish and oppressive foreign governments.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Spooky pick for CIA

  • Mr Fujimori's fall came with extraordinary speed, a bare four months into a constitutionally dubious third term.

    ECONOMIST: Peru: The future without Fujimori | The

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