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...members, Hungary has done the least," says Thomas S. Szayna, a security analyst at rand, a public-policy think tank in Santa Monica, Calif. "It continues to spend very little, has not lived up to its commitments, and is not taken all that seriously." Criticisms like these are "completely groundless," according to István Simicskó, vice chairman of the Hungarian parliament's Defense Committee and a member of the opposition Fidesz Party. He ticks off the achievements of the previous government, which was led by Fidesz: it increased defense spending by .1% of GDP during each...
...They held him in jail for a number of weeks, and the FBI was interviewing him on a regular basis,” Brill says. “On their end they thought he was suspicious—which was groundless...
...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 co-president...
Furthermore, groundless drug tests would represent a step backward from constructive approaches to the problem of adolescent drug use. A 1995 Department of Health and Human Services study found that participation in extracurricular activities is strongly correlated with decreased drug use. The peak hours for juvenile crime are between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., when many students are released from school and have nowhere to go. If schools are worried about student drug use, they should make efforts to involve more students in extracurricular activities rather than lock them...
...taking this case, the Court should reaffirm that students are indeed “persons” under the law. They should not be subject to random, groundless and intrusive searches...