Word: mooted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during the day, she works the night shift, a schedule that usually allows her no more than four hours of sleep. "My kids tell me I'm always tired," she says. Amy Schwartzman, 35, a law student at Tulane University, gets up at 9 a.m. and, what with classes, moot court and work as a research assistant, often does not get home until 10 p.m. That's when she studies or unwinds. Nights of tumbling into bed at 3 a.m. make her feel "as if my brain isn't moving as quickly as it should," says Schwartzman, noting that...
...state of Massachusetts is not Boston University. Silber could not (even if, and that's a big if, he wanted to) abolish individual rights by decree. His critics hysterical assertions are essentially red herrings; they border on the moot simply because such a parade of horribles cannot be implemented by any governor. Rather than slavishly follow the media's largely irresponsible soundbite fixations, the citizens of the Commonwealth should see in Silber the administrative ability, intelligence, courage and leadership of which Massachusetts is in such dire need...
...this is all moot on this side of the Pacific. Ten days ago, I was sitting in the Sydney Football Stadium rooting on Mal Meninga and the Raiders...
...Daniel Callahan. But he adds that Curran's moral case is far weaker than her legal one. "She is being asked to put her children at comparatively slight risk to save the life of their half brother." Sadly, as Jean-Pierre's condition worsens, the issue may soon be moot...
...Supreme Court decides that Diadiun's column was essentially a statement of opinion, the facts will become moot. Harmful opinions, said the court in a famous 1974 decision, could not be corrected by judges and juries, but only through "the competition of other ideas." At the same time, however, the Justices found no redeeming value in "false statements of fact," implying that fact and opinion are quite separable, even though the court...