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(Version 2 is at least as dubious as Version 1.) Originally hailed as "the very best appointee of the Clinton administration, bar none," by Morton Kondracke, Reno has more recently been called the president's "worst major Cabinet appointment" by the editors of the Weekly Standard .
Activist groups are dubious.
Whether this document belongs in a collection of Washington's writings seems a little dubious, given that (as the assiduous reader will discover with a glance at the note on page 1,094 by the volume's editor, John Rhodehamel) Washington did not actually write these Rules but merely copied them from an English translation of a French-language Jesuit text from the 16 th century.
A common substitute for sodium when the latter is contraindicated (e.g. for heart conditions) is potassium (from potash), whose valence is also 1 and whose symbol is K, from late Latin kalium , a word of dubious etymology.
But even aside from that, this was a dubious acquisition, because in essence Lucent paid $3.7 billion to buy a business whose profit margins and earnings growth are significantly lower than Lucent's.
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