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...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...
Faced with white opposition and their own misgivings about affirmative action, a growing number of blacks would prefer to moot the argument by expanding opportunities for all Americans, whatever their color. They believe that instead of fighting for a fair share of the crumbs from a shrinking economic pie, blacks should concentrate their energy on making the pie big enough to guarantee a slice for everyone. That would require improving schools so that every child could obtain the skills needed to be competitive in the labor market, a thriving economy that could provide a job for everyone who wants...
...felt we should give our readers as much information as we had to enable them to sort out a complicated situation. And the issue of privacy was moot, after broad-cast of her name by NBC and publication in The New York Times," Meriwether said...
Such questions are moot, however, if the army decides to take matters into its own hands. The spate of presidential resignations last week left Yugoslavia in confusion over just what civilian authority ultimately commands the military. If the answer turns out to be Milosevic and the army leaders, the country could sink into an even grimmer cycle of violence...