Word: mooted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left some speculation as to whether Harvard would have won the race anyway. LaBarre thinks so. So does coach Harry Parker. It is a moot point at this stage, however, and all that one can do is wait until Worcester. The answer may lie there...
...when the bitching ended, all that had been accomplished was the painful awareness that without structural reforms journalism is not likely to change its colors. Clearly, there is a more sophisticated reporter waiting in the wings (whether or not he is also a new journalist is a rather moot point) and he wants to cover unconventional stories as well as unconventional angles on quite conventional stories. But how is his copy to survive the uphill obstacle course posed by copy readers, editors and publishers? Some of the journalists present suggested that newsmen have some say in the editorial decisions...
Although those particular issues are now moot, the atmosphere has been further clouded by Treasury Secretary, John Connally's insistent demand that Ottawa make certain new economic concessions; notably a revision of the 1965 Canada-U.S. auto pact, giving Canada a bigger share of joint car production. So far, Ottawa has refused to budge, and talks have bogged down in ill feeling. American negotiators speak disparagingly of Ottawa's "bush-league mandarins." Trudeau has cracked that "with friends like Secretary Connally, who needs enemies...
...Supreme Court could make all other challenges moot. Last December the court heard cases involving the Texas and Georgia abortion laws, but has not yet ruled. Should the court decide as expected, its action would nullify all anti-abortion laws in the country...
With McGraw-Hill and LIFE at least temporarily suspending their plans to publish, the New York State Supreme Court took no further action on a motion by Hughes' lawyers to enjoin publication. Before the matter became moot, however, Irving filed with the court a minutely detailed affidavit describing the numerous meetings during which Hughes supposedly recited his extraordinarily confessional autobiography. If Irving is lying, he has obviously left himself open to comprehensive perjury charges, for his account is remarkably explicit. He and Hughes first met by prearrangement, says Irving, in Oaxaca, Mexico, on Feb. 13. By Irving...