Word: mooted
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...third box next to the traditional options of male and female. Instead of being asked to define themselves within the normal binary, the high school seniors will be able to choose to define themselves as a bit of both. Of course, at that point, the issue may be moot: the students may choose none of the three, pushing aside the crimson application in favor of the simple male/female boxes in the blue and white application delivered from New Haven. Either way, I'd love to see their facial expressions when they and their parents are first introduced to Harvard...
...Lawrence Singleton's victims, such speculation is moot. Mary Vincent, now 34, told the San Jose Mercury News that she was "appalled and horrified. I want to feel safe again. I don't know what the feeling is like anymore." Divorced and financially strapped, she is raising one of her two children on her own. The prosthetic hooks she wears have worn...
...field, says it's hard to apply antitrust law in a fluid situation. "My concern is with the law's ability to keep pace with market conditions in fields that change so rapidly," she says. "Once it's clear a practice is anticompetitive, the issue may already be moot...
...oppose our measure based on "consistency" is ridiculous. If the Ad Board is consistently unfair, it needs to be fixed. If in fixing this problem, we enter a brief period of inconsistency (say, the first semester with students on the Board) then it is worth it. This is a moot point anyway since our greatest desire is to make the Ad Board fair and not to change specific cases or threaten consistency. We are concerned with process over consequence...
Though securing the allegiance of these voters would be a moot point for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) or another liberal standard-bearer, it is proving to be a difficult task for Kerry, even with his recent surge in the polls...