Word: mooted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether the Crimson will win or not is a moot question; how it does it is not. If it defeats the Lord Jeffs convincingly, it will gain the momentum necessary for its upcoming contests against Massachusetts, Duquesne, North Carolina and St. John...
DEVELOP ALTERNATIVES TO PRISONS. Prisons should, after all, be reserved only for truly dangerous criminals. The majority might be better off if they never spent a night inside a cell. It is a moot question whether society would be safe; but it is difficult to imagine that it would be less safe than it is now, since most inmates are still more hardened when released. There are numerous alternatives: halfway houses, in which small groups of inmates sleep but leave for work each day; work-release programs, in which those convicted live in prison but work outside...
...Supreme Court could render all these cases moot during its upcoming term. The court has agreed to hear challenges to Texas and Georgia abortion laws, and if it should decide for the plaintiffs, its action could nullify most anti-abortion laws...
...love is actually a moot point in this film. Antoine's one recorded moment of true passion remains his illicit fling with the shoe-store lady, Fabian Tabard, in Stolen Kisses. The first few notes of the Charles Trenet ballad ("I Wish You Love") that underlined the earlier film sneaks onto the soundtrack of Bed and Board every once and a while- but this time it quickly breaks off into an atonal clanging sound...
Nixon has long felt that the document was redundant, and that as Commander in Chief he already has all the authority summed up in the Tonkin resolution. Whatever the last word from constitutional experts may be on that point, the resolution had become pragmatically moot because U.S. forces are gradually withdrawing anyway. Its role in history may be not only that it further embroiled the U.S. in Viet Nam and raised loud voices of dissent at home, but that it probably marked the last time that the U.S. Congress would ever hand the President such a heady carte blanche with...