Word: mooted
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These developments could change the nature of abortion and even of birth control by eventually permitting the widespread distribution of pills. Though the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 made abortion legal in the U.S., the ruling was rendered moot in some places by the dearth of doctors willing to perform the procedure and by the fervor of demonstrators who frightened women away from clinics. Now the battleground may shift to the FDA, drug manufacturers and state legislatures...
Class and school spirit flourished, particularly at sporting events. Place, the manager of the football team, recalls beating Yale 50 12 and remembers a "very strong spirit for the class" which prevailed during his undergraduate years. John R. Moot recalls that students of his day were more likely to storm the field and topple the goal posts--wooden at the time--than students today...
...unclear what effect the enactment of the committee's recommendations would have. Some faculty members expressed hope that then-President-elect Bill Clinton would stick to his promise of lifting the ban on gays in the military, rendering any Harvard action committed in protest of the ban moot...
...reconsider Vance-Owen -- while asking for territorial concessions. But on Saturday the Administration came to a decision anyway. It will remain private until Secretary of State Warren Christopher can finish consultations in Western Europe and Russia. That may be all the time the Serbs have to make the decision moot. (See related story on page...
...strange, a little dreamlike. His rather subtle work has never got as much press as has the work of his more voguish Japanese peers Arata Isozaki and Tadao Ando (whose buildings are, respectively, Tokyo-by-way-of- Holl ywood lollapaloozas and ascetic Zen bunkers), but now that inequity seems moot: this week Maki was to be named the winner of the 1993 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's de facto Nobel...