Some suspect that its opposition stems from the fear that many expensive and profitable pills would be found to be of dubious value.

ECONOMIST: Developing new drugs

But the insidious culture that allowed Wall Street firms to peddle securities of dubious value to pension funds and charitable endowments remains largely in place.

NEWYORKER: What Good Is Wall Street?

Since most digital advertising is a total numbers game, it might take a while for agencies and their clients to realize what portion of their Like-spend is going to acquire fans and attendent search results of dubious value.

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T-shirts advertising a new and rather obscure scientific-networking tool of dubious economic value: it was called the world wide web.

ECONOMIST: Computing

They're of dubious military value, and the UK Government is saving money by delaying the in-service date of one by six years, while mothballing the other.

BBC: Scotland Doomed by Comic Economics

They were illiquid, their value dubious.

FORBES: They Want Your Founder's Stock

Bank of America (BAC) touched a new post-crisis low on Monday, but Citigroup (C) has the dubious distinction of having shed the most value among the big banks in the last five years.

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For some, the entertainment value is, well, dubious.

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Now you might think this would be a very odd way to restore confidence in either the finances of an important bank or of a rather important eurozone government: one load of government IOUs of questionable intrinsic value would be swapped for a dubious right to future profits in a bank whose foundations have been crumbling.

BBC: No magic potion for eurozone banks