Word: groundlessly
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Then we have the estimable Michigan Daily publishing an uncharacteristically groundless editorial entitled “Yost isn’t toast” last Monday, claiming Berenson’s “attempts to pressure students to end the chants are misplaced and would drain much of the joy from one of the greatest experiences in all of athletics...
...merger basically left RUS floating for a while, sort of groundless, homeless, not really knowing where our club was going to get its next paycheck,” says Natalia A.J. Truszkowska. ’04, a former co-president...
...independent Greek Justice system has always, after thorough investigations of every item of the so-called indisputable evidence and disclosure, ascertained that all ‘charges’ were and are groundless,” wrote Kokkalis.“The arrogant slanderers who launch such malicious attacks should become well aware that, eventually, their attempts would receive a fitting reply...
...Cizik parses the issue is instructive: the focus shouldn't be SUVs but overall fuel consumption. The problem with the furor over SUVs isn't that it's groundless--SUVs do pollute--but that it's carried out in a strange void, as though Americans don't live in the most sumptuously energy-guzzling society of all time. For at least the past two decades, North America's per-capita energy consumption has been about 4 1/2 times the world average, according to the U.S. Department of Energy...
...British writer Matt Ridley, author of ?Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters,? offered an even more cheerful perspective. Arguing that the early fears about tinkering with genes had proved to be groundless, he went on to dismiss the current concerns of many of his fellow Europeans about genetically modified (GM) foods. Mother Nature, he said wryly, had been engaged in such crossbreeding experiments for millions of years. ?She?s got a huge research budget,? he added, ?and the chances of us beating her at that game seem to me rather remote.? As for human cloning...