Word: moot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them are Dreyfus Liquid Assets, Inc.; Anchor Reserve Fund, Inc., which takes investments as small as $100 initially and $25 thereafter; and Money Market Management, Inc., of Pittsburgh. How well they will do at a time when many interest rates have dropped a bit from their 1973 peaks is moot. Donald Pitti, president of Wiesenberger Services Inc., which among other things publishes analyses of mutual-fund investment records, believes that the new funds are "a product of high interest rates and not a major trend." But they represent a rare fresh idea in the management of small investments-and some...
...idea is perhaps politically valid in a quaint sort of way, but was pretty well rendered moot for the U.S. by the unpleasantness at Concord and Valley Forge in the 1770s. All things considered, Americans prefer the stability of a system combining the functions of real and symbolic leader in one person and one office. It is part of the scale of the original American experiment, asking much of its citizens and those they elect...
...this specific instance, the question scarcely matters, since with all the diplomatic hassle, the statue may well be returned to Kom, perhaps with compensation to Furman. Even so, it will leave moot the questions that more and more agitate the art world: Can or should even a legitimate owner sell an art object outside his own country if it is declared a national treasure, and can an art dealer legitimately buy it, in good faith, for mere cash...
...court battle over pretrial publicity and the protection of newsmen's sources was avoided last week because of Spiro Agnew's resignation. The subpoenas that had been issued to journalists became moot. The basic issues, however, remain very much alive...
...hardly speaks the voice of revolution. Which is only to say that the Riggs-King match had nothing to do with the issues that were read into it. Its only point, the only point that matters in the end, was its lack of point. The match mattered not a moot...