Word: mooted
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...look to the Flintstones for an answer. However human beings whiled away their first 100,000 years or so, few of us today make a living tracking down mammoths or digging up tasty roots. Much of our genetic legacy of sex differences has already been rendered moot by that uniquely human invention: technology. Military prowess no longer depends on superior musculature or those bursts of hormones that prime the body for combat at ax range. As for exploration, women -- with their lower body weight and oxygen consumption -- may be the more "natural" astronauts...
...before he could get to the Oval Office, the issue was moot. Just a few hours before Bush was to meet with Shamir, the invitations were sent out. Date: December 4. Place: Washington D.C. Previous discussion with Israel: None...
...ties with the West. The faceless abductors themselves are reaping diminishing returns from the hiding, feeding and clothing of captives. One of the initial impulses that guided Islamic Jihad's first seizures back in the early 1980s -- the freeing of 17 fundamentalists jailed in Kuwait -- is now a moot point; after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the remaining 15 prisoners were set free...
...that Warner-Lambert apply for more limited marketing, the strategy used to release the AIDS drugs. Under the plan reviewed last week, up to 50,000 patients would have been given the drug under close scrutiny. But the advisory panel's vote on lack of efficacy made the plan moot for now. "There was concern that a very bad precedent could be set if the scientific standards were lowered," says Steven Ferris, a neurobiologist at New York University Medical Center, who chaired the committee. The group has recommended another study of tacrine's effectiveness. In the meantime...
...failure of the military to speak with a unified voice raised several possibilities. The generals may have been orchestrating a sophisticated good cop-bad cop routine. Perhaps events were moving so swiftly that the threat from Adzic was rendered moot by Slovenia's subsequent announcement of a unilateral cease-fire. Or maybe the generals were acting at cross-purposes...