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This group of senators, most of whom face tough re-election battles in 1994, decided that a perfunctory and moot "no" vote afforded some sort of political innoculation against the tax allergy of wrathful voters. The Clinton administration, aware of these legislators' tenuous election prospects, "let them off the hook...
...these senators had it in mind to express qualified assent with their moot no votes, then they will have succeeded in defending themselves against charges that they were vehement supporters of an unpopular measure...
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...