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...crisis was averted, and although the issue was rendered moot, Anderson says he believes his standards prevailed...
...Access then becomes moot because it is access to a mediocre plan," Reichley says. "We must maintain the faculty and the library. That's why financial aid is not our first priority...
...look to the Flintstones for an answer. However human beings whiled away their first 100,000 years or so, few of us today make a living tracking down mammoths or digging up tasty roots. Much of our genetic legacy of sex differences has already been rendered moot by that uniquely human invention: technology. Military prowess no longer depends on superior musculature or those bursts of hormones that prime the body for combat at ax range. As for exploration, women -- with their lower body weight and oxygen consumption -- may be the more "natural" astronauts...
...before he could get to the Oval Office, the issue was moot. Just a few hours before Bush was to meet with Shamir, the invitations were sent out. Date: December 4. Place: Washington D.C. Previous discussion with Israel: None...
...ties with the West. The faceless abductors themselves are reaping diminishing returns from the hiding, feeding and clothing of captives. One of the initial impulses that guided Islamic Jihad's first seizures back in the early 1980s -- the freeing of 17 fundamentalists jailed in Kuwait -- is now a moot point; after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the remaining 15 prisoners were set free...