Word: mooted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accustomed setting for the polite interchanges of moot court got a slightly different sound at the Law School yesterday: an auctioneer's "Going once, going twice, sold...
...calm outskirts of Bophuthatswana: scores of whites in khaki uniforms were driving towards them at top speed, brandishing automatic weapons. The inevitable massacre ensued. The police did not suspect that the whites had come, too late and without warning, to help them dispute what had become a moot point of history. The whites, still looking ominous though they had tactfully removed their swastika-like armbands, became (and were in any event) armed invaders against whom the country had to be defended. The extreme hatred between the two groups completed the mix; the last, wounded survivors of one car were killed...
...unethical to copy material from your roommate's unpublished thesis? The main problem here is that your roommate would probably be more likely to take action against you. Thus, the author confuses the impracticality of stealing with the ethical considerations of doing so, which at Harvard apparently should be moot...
...truth is that many members of the faculty and the administration endorsed the Verba report, hoping that the election of Bill Clinton would make its conclusions moot. When it did not, the University once again had to look for cover...
...order to avert these invidious consequences, the Administration would be tempted to further tamper with already mutable accounting procedures. If, on paper, there is no deficit, then the amendment is moot. Nebulous government statistics would become even more bewildering, and accountability would sink amid a morass of bogus technicalities. The amendment would only provoke the government's further abdication of the very budgetary responsibility it was designed to foster...