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...recipients, they brought a return to normality after the trauma of mastectomy. So when anecdotal reports of health problems associated with the devices began cropping up over the past several years, women were first alarmed, then hugely relieved when surgeons asserted that the stories were groundless. Now their confidence has once again been shaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Strike Against Silicone | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

...Absolutely, absolutely. Everything will remain as it has always been. Any alarming speculation, here or abroad, about who will have his finger on the button is groundless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Want to Stay the Course | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...Chinese Foreign Ministry's traditional reply to reports of such sales is that they are "utterly groundless." One reason for U.S. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft's controversial visit to Beijing in December 1989 was his effort to head off the M-9 sale to Syria. He got a general promise that China would not sell medium-range missiles to Middle East countries and a specific statement that China had no plans to sell the M-9 to Syria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China For Sale: Tools of Destruction | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

More likely, the United States will win the war, but in doing so may sacrifice its principles at home. These are not groundless fears--American history is littered with examples of wartime excesses...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Here We Go Again | 1/31/1991 | See Source »

...moved into the Moscow area. "I want an explanation for why they were in uniform, armed with tear gas, bullet-proof clothing and weapons," he said. He also demanded to know why two divisions had been placed under KGB command. KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov called the Deputy's statement "groundless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union No Shortage of Rumors | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

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