Word: baselessness
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...Alabama's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction, Guy Hunt stirred the party's hopes of expanding the G.O.P. base in Dixie. Those dreams dimmed last week when Hunt was charged with stealing $200,000 from his inaugural fund and other crimes. Hunt insisted that the indictment was "baseless." Since last September, a grand jury has been investigating the Governor's financial dealings, including allegations that Hunt, a Baptist preacher, used state planes to fly to religious engagements. No charges have been filed in that matter...
...gentle man who shuns confrontation. But Foley had another reason for being wary of Russ. In 1989 Russ obtained an FBI report in which a jail inmate claimed that he had a homosexual relationship with Foley and threatened to kill him. The FBI concluded that the allegations were baseless, but the report was passed to Russ, who helped oversee security for the House...
...grateful for the strong endorsement of my integrity by the Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner and other members of the Harvard Administration. I will not allow these baseless allegations to deter me or my staff from carrying out faithfully our responsibilities to Memorial Church in the highest tradition of Harvard University. I do not believe that these allegations demand any further comment by myself or my staff as further comment will only serve to give credence to something that deserves none...
Altman said that the assault charges werecompletely baseless...
...House Committee on Un-American Activities on the content of libraries and courses, the campus loyalty oaths, the whole sordid atmosphere of persecution, betrayal and paranoia. The number of conservative academics fired by the lefty thought police, by contrast, is zero. There has been heckling. There have been baseless accusations of racism. And certainly there is no shortage of the zealots, authoritarians and scramblers who view PC as a shrewd career move or as a vent for their own frustrations...