Word: baselessness
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...present a truthful and accurate representation of John's work as a psychic medium. We wish that TIME, in Leon Jaroff's article about the program [BEHAVIOR, March 5], had done the same for the magazine's readers. Jaroff's piece was a mix of erroneous observations and baseless theories. Your readers should know the following: No information is given to John Edward about the members of the audience with whom he talks. There is no eavesdropping on gallery conversations, and there are no "tricks" to feed information to John...
...have found ways of persuading students to communicate calmly their worries to teachers they trust. At Deming Middle School in New Mexico, where Araceli Tena was shot in the head by a classmate in 1999, principal Mike Chavez has visited every classroom to talk about the damage of spreading baseless rumors. The Santee news didn't cause a flurry of bogus threats or panicky tips at Deming this week, as it did at so many other schools. Similarly, officials in Jefferson County, Colo., home of Columbine, say the results of two surveys--one taken last year and one just before...
...Carolina, a Smithfield subsidiary, with violating the Clean Water Act. And a third, to be filed in U.S. District Court, claims Smithfield's serial pollution violates the federal RICO statute (designed to be used against organized crime). In a statement to TIME, Smithfield calls the suits "totally baseless...
Each person, of course, must decide if precautions are in order. For every example like asbestosis, in which doctors discover the health risks years later, there is at least one Y2K, in which the fears of disaster turn out to be baseless. What is beyond doubt is that the ongoing debate is not going to stop tens of millions of Americans from yakking away on ever newer, sleeker cell phones...
...vacating that decision with a mere query, the Rehnquist court strained to keep from humiliating its Florida subordinate. But the query--Could you kindly provide justification for a decision that appears baseless?--sent a pointed message to the willful Florida justices...