Word: mooted
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...limited the serving of hot breakfasts to four of the College’s 12 Houses in an attempt to cut board costs. The move sparked student protest and, though a revelation in the spring of 1978 of a Food Services budget surplus rendered the point moot, the hot breakfast controversy exposed undergraduate concerns over how well their student representatives acted in protecting their interests and how receptive administrators were to their opinions...
...smoking ban question may already be moot, as a statewide prohibition of smoking in bars and restaurants passed almost a week ago in the Massachusetts State Senate, and is expected to pass the House within the next year—making...
...announced, that of Punjab, a rich province with a volatile mix of Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus. A decision had been made on Aug. 12, but Mountbatten had ordered its details unpublished until two days after India's independence. He foresaw chaos and wanted British responsibility for it to be moot by the time the screaming started over the new borders. No preparations were therefore made to control the inevitable havoc. The result was a bloody birthday gift to newborn India and Pakistan as millions of people were uprooted amid massacres and murder. "I am sick with horror," Nehru would write...
...force to enforce U.N. resolutions 687 and 1441 could be justified, but the Bush administration should take more time to develop a broader coalition than it had assembled. Otherwise, we would be faced with the right war at the wrong time. Now, of course, the policy point is moot, but accuracy in reporting still matters...
...magazine disappears from readers’ newsstands and mailboxes, though, the question of whether their horizons have been suitably broadened becomes moot. As such, Coles’ and Testa’s refusal to speculate about the magazine’s popular appeal, its potential for growth, or any other aspect of the publication process beyond their philosophical mission, may be a liability...