1.   Another dubious deal offers free travel as an inducement to take out a credit card.

2.   As a result, when they buy themselves into a dubious deal, they often hide their embarrassment and move the bad art down the line, experts say.

3.   Charlie Keating was cutting dubious deals to protect his financial kingdom.

4.   Locally, immigrants shopping in corner stores say the number of shady cards and dubious deals is on the rise.

5.   Smith, meanwhile, has a legacy of dubious deals, the worst being the one in which he sent Luis Gonzalez to Arizona for Karim Garcia.

6.   While Yeltsin himself is viewed as personally free of scandal, his Kremlin is a byword for dubious deals and obscure alliances, just as it was under Brezhnev.

7.   Within months, newspapers were headlining allegations of dubious deals.

8.   An audit highlighted several dubious deals, including a joint venture to run a race track, casino and resort on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius.

9.   But the court cited a lack of evidence in finding Izui innocent of fraud charges involving alleged dubious deals with a major Japanese oil company.

10.   Hosokawa, who resigned in April, testified in parliament to his role in loans from a scandal-tained trucking firm and dubious stock deals.