Word: mooted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past two years. Will they be hectoring and outraging all over the airwaves a decade from now? Stern is smart enough to think he won't be. Limbaugh probably will be unless he really triumphs and a Reaganite Republican such as Bill Bennett is elected President, which could moot a lot of the national appetite for his political evangelizing...
Assuming none of these teams loses any other Ivy League games, Brown can still control its destiny. Of course, the powerful Quakers could render all of this moot with a win Saturday. But the Bears can still dream...
...military's new "Don't ask, don't tell" policy is moot for the moment: the Pentagon, bowing to a court order, will let gay service members openly profess their orientation. The court order is now under appeal...
This group of senators, most of whom face tough re-election battles in 1994, decided that a perfunctory and moot "no" vote afforded some sort of political innoculation against the tax allergy of wrathful voters. The Clinton administration, aware of these legislators' tenuous election prospects, "let them off the hook...
...these senators had it in mind to express qualified assent with their moot no votes, then they will have succeeded in defending themselves against charges that they were vehement supporters of an unpopular measure...