Word: spuriousness
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Officials here called the report spurious and vague, but a Pentagon spokesman said it showed a need for tighter security. Last week's White House announcement said efforts at tightening export controls and classifying more information would continue, but basic scientific research would not be affected...
...John R. Lakian, Westwood millionaire and 1982 GOP gubernatorial candidate, to claim anything other than being blown out of the water after his spurious $50 million libel suit against The Boston Globe is utterly ridiculous...
Plimpton's pitching ace, pictured in Sports Illustrator's April Fool's article, is nothing of the sort Instead, he is a Chicago area junior high teacher, says Sports Illustrated photographer I ane Stewart, whose snapshots of the spurious hurler adorn the pages of this week's issues...
...omitted because the University does not discriminate against gay men and lesbians then there are we to assume that the University does discriminate against all of the groups explicitly mentioned in the current equal opportunity statement? Obviously, the contention that absence of policy means absence of proment is spurious...
...Crimson, there were more that 84 informal complaints of sexual harassment made by undergraduates at the Colleges in the 82-83 academic year alone. That none of these informal complaints developed into formal charges does not suggest that the incidents were somehow "less serious," or the accusations "spurious." Rather the implicit suggestion is one or both of the following: the emotional and academic costs of lodging a formal complaint are too high, or the procedures themselves are too little known or understood to be effective. Procedures for filing a formal complaint must not be so labyrinthine that students know...