Meanwhile, the capital, Luanda, gained the dubious reputation of being the world's most expensive city for political, diplomatic, and commercial elites.
A 1986 report from the Regional Plan Association noted that since 1940, New York has gained the "dubious distinction of being the world's only city with a shrinking rapid transit system, even as world mileage grew over 40percentt a decade".
Last night, lean finely textured beef (AKA "pink slime") gained a dubious new ally: Stephen Colbert.
Bolivia gained the dubious distinction of least welcoming among those surveyed, and was joined in the bottom ten by Venezuela, Russia, Kuwait, Iran, and Pakistan, among others.
If Jonathan gains the dubious honour of being the first president in Nigerian history to lose an election, no one knows whether he and his ministers will peacefully or willingly vacate the presidential palace for Buhari.
The Samsung DoubleTime gains the dubious distinction of being the only phone here to be stuck with Android 2.2/FroYo.
And even if the deficit is somehow eviscerated, at best the Democrats will gain the dubious stature of a "me too" party.
(That discovery was made at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, a facility that once gained a certain dubious charisma over worries that it would produce a black hole that would eat the Earth — another example of darkness arising).
Hydrogen bombs are substantially more powerful than their atomic forefathers, a dubious distinction gained by effectively using the standard atomic "fission" reaction to trigger a second, much larger "fusion" explosion.
Indeed the long established link with arty types and high proportion of second homes have led to the manicured town gaining the slightly dubious nickname of "Hampstead-on-sea".
