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While many candidates are running for office unopposed within their party—for them the primary is a moot exercise—today will also see several fierce intra-party battles resolved...
...questions to be answered before we rush to put deadly weapons into pilots' hands." Many rank-and-file pilots agree, contending that other changes, such as improving the passenger-profiling system, would do more to boost security. But given the political head of steam, such arguments may already be moot...
Well, they're the only team left in the AL. Of course, it's a moot point since they've been on strike for three years. Anyway, here's what I wanted to talk to you about. Our ratings are still down, even with all the changes. But how's this for an idea: we're trying to grow Honus Wagner from some old blood cells they found on a pair of Ty Cobb's old spikes, and we were wondering what you'd think about a celebrity boxing match during half-time of the World Series. That...
...exchange for low fares and frequent service, has learned to put up with a lot--overcrowded hubs, vanishing airline meals and that great marketing coup of the late 20th century, the nonrefundable airline ticket. But after Sept. 11, all the old complaints about air travel were suddenly rendered moot. Airports are now high-stress zones where only two issues really matter: Is it safe to fly, and can it be made safe without turning air travel into such a debilitating ordeal that it's simply no longer worth the hassle...
...Those urging an attack on Iraq, however, see it as nothing less than a total remaking of the Middle East's geopolitical equation, rendering moot traditional concerns over the sensibilities of the "Arab street." In this view, according to the New York Times, is that "an Iraq under new governance could become a new Western ally, helping to reduce American dependency on bases in Saudi Arabia, to secure Israel's eastern flank and act as a wedge between Iran and Syria." The idea of a democratic Iraq remaining intact as a single national entity, let alone becoming an overnight ally...