Word: mooting
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...able to reinstate the transfer program in a year, instead of the current (at least) two-year hiatus. Most troubling about this decision is its timing and its lack of transparency. The decision was announced well after the application deadline, rendering applicants’ time, energy, and money moot. Almost all of the 1,308 rejected applicants were full-time college students balancing full academic and extra-curricular lives while going through the college application process a second time. Although the Admissions Office’s letter to the applicants recognizes this concern (and they plan to refund the application...
...don’t know if Jeff was personally and philosophically against the Ivy League being in the playoffs,” Murphy said yesterday. “I just know that he felt it was a moot point based on how the Ivy League was formed originally and the wishes of the presidents, which are the people he answers...
...possibly have drafted [it]... I came to the conclusion that the person who drafted this letter needs counseling." Indian Hotels, he said, had proposed a friendly partnership in which each company would take an equity stake in the other, share expertise but remain independent. "At no time did we moot the the idea of a merger," Kumar says. White's letter, he says, "will go down as one of the most uncivilized exchanges of views between two companies in the 21st century." Its sentiments, Kumar says, reflect "an era that is now prehistoric...
...expiration of the Federal Assault Weapon Ban in 2004, gun control remains relatively lax in many states, especially when it comes to handguns, which are responsible for many, if not most, gun-related murders. Gun advocates claim the need for handguns in self-defense, but such considerations are moot when weighed against the number of lives that might be saved by making the weapons illegal...
...make room for the newcomers, then we should be able to make it through the 21st century. If not, it won't matter what we do in the U.S. - the sheer scale of the rising demand for energy and raw materials in the developing will render our actions moot...