Word: mooted
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...teachers it had laid off. It also promised teachers a $300 cost-of-living increase plus a "longevity" raise up to $1,500. New York teachers already have a salary range of $9,700 to $20,350, but whether they would ever receive the new increases was moot; the state has frozen all municipal wages...
Many of Coleman's ideas are both obvious and familiar, and a few have been included in legislation already proposed by the Ford Administration. Whether Congress will approve them is moot, but Coleman's statement at least takes an important step toward establishing new priorities for a national transportation policy...
Whether The Pedagogue holds, then, a valuable lesson that no Summer School student should miss is a moot question. In the concrete sense it's unlikely that anyone has profited much from The Pedagogues since as far as I can tell nobody but me has checked it out of Widener in the last 75 years, and Summer School students seem still to be surviving without the benefit of the book's wisdom. It's also hard to convince anyone even now that Harvard is just a regular old place, though things may have gotten to a point where...
...other Ford campaign officials who attended his announcement ceremony have reputations for openness and honesty. The finance chairman is David Packard, former Deputy Secretary of Defense under Nixon and a multimillionaire California industrialist (Hewlett-Packard Co.). The treasurer is Robert C. Moot, Defense Department comptroller in the Nixon Administration. Moot said jokingly that his job will be to watch Callaway and Packard and "keep 'em both honest." The chairman of Ford's campaign advisory committee, Dean Burch, a former Nixon aide and political counsel to Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, noted that his eyes will be pointed...
...severe stroke-Justice William O. Douglas, 76, has crustily refused to remove his unique voice from the Supreme Court. But last week, as the current term was moving toward the latest regular-session adjournment in history, it was learned that Douglas' fellow Justices had quietly moved to moot the great libertarian by unofficially discounting his vote...