The panel would also find out whether other companies might be involved in likewise dubious conduct.

Representative Tom DeLay's dubious conduct in relation to the Texas state redistricting process to further his party's power sadly represents a new low point for our political servants.

The manner in which the PKK leader, Abdullah Öcalan, was detained, and the legally dubious conduct of his trial should be met with resistance and denunciation.

He mingled very little with the other students, though looking enviously at the "daring" or "Bohemian" set - whose superficially "smart" language and meaningless ironic pose he aped, and whose dubious conduct he wished he dared adopt.

In settling with the S.E.C., NASD, the New York attorney general and other state regulators, the 12 firms hope to put an end to the drumbeat of disclosures about dubious conduct that has damaged their reputations among investors.

In the problem-plagued trial, two of the original defendants dropped out because of heart attacks, another was found murdered, two jurors were dismissed for dubious conduct and the trial moved to White Plains for four days to hear a wounded witness testify from a wheelchair.