Some suspect that its opposition stems from the fear that many expensive and profitable pills would be found to be of dubious value.
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.
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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Not only is there less need to hold reserves to defend a currency, especially if intervention is of dubious value, but the other main reason to hold reserves as a safety cushion in times of war, a trade embargo or a banking crisis also looks suspect.
Profits have also come from high and risky leverage, new products of dubious value to the non-Wall Street economy and insider dealing from mergers and acquisitions that generate fees and high payouts life-changing payouts to executives at the companies sold while destroying value and often jobs.
Drugmakers focus on winning approval for increasingly expensive new formulations, often of dubious medical value.
T-shirts advertising a new and rather obscure scientific-networking tool of dubious economic value: it was called the world wide web.
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.
Where, for that matter, is President Bush - whose appreciation of the need to preserve the credibility, safety and effectiveness of America's nuclear arsenal surely is no less than his attachment to intelligence reforms of dubious (if any) value?
Comparisons with other rich countries and within the United States show that America's health-care system is not only growing at an unsustainable pace, but also provides questionable value for money and dubious medical care.
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.
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.
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