Word: mooted
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...truth is that many members of the faculty and the administration endorsed the Verba report, hoping that the election of Bill Clinton would make its conclusions moot. When it did not, the University once again had to look for cover...
...order to avert these invidious consequences, the Administration would be tempted to further tamper with already mutable accounting procedures. If, on paper, there is no deficit, then the amendment is moot. Nebulous government statistics would become even more bewildering, and accountability would sink amid a morass of bogus technicalities. The amendment would only provoke the government's further abdication of the very budgetary responsibility it was designed to foster...
Women are under-represented in business, trade, government and countless other sectors. Opportunities such as the Radcliffe Externship program, the Radcliffe Publishing course and scholarships for women all aim to redress the imbalance. Opening Radcliffe's programs to men would render their purpose moot...
...made obsolete in the 19th century. They claim that according to the letter of the Constitution, the federal government has no right to regulate the sale of arms, except across state lines. Following this reactionary constitutional logic, the entire debate on waiting periods and access to handguns is moot...
...Packwood is not the only one on the stand. As Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) asserts in The Globe, "The Senate's reputation is very much at stake." Whether or not this entire issue is actually relevant to the lives of average Americans is moot; that every major newspaper has plastered its pages with stores, news analyses and columns on the controversy will force Bob and Mary Jones of Peoria to think about Packwood and the Senate--and not, perhaps, about the real political issues facing them...