Word: mootness
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...even at that optimistic pace the measure may be rendered moot before it's law. SunAmerica, a financial-services giant with $142 billion of managed assets (though a relative upstart in the area of 401(k) plans) is sure to make a splash with its application last month for an exemption that would allow it to bring a third-party adviser to the plans it administers. I'm told that Labor is looking favorably on the prohibited-transaction exemption and could approve it by September...
...public policy from the London School of Economics. When she decided to study law, though, she skipped Europe's elite institutions and enrolled at the University of Miami. Why? Feix, 26, who worked for Hewlett-Packard in Geneva last summer, explains that U.S. law schools have "law reviews, moot court, judicial clerkships, litigation training--things that aren't available in Europe...
...efforts to sway the current administration are handicapped somewhat by Rudenstine’s status as a lame-duck president. The Rudenstine administration is no doubt hesitant to saddle its successor with a decision, and Summers’ views on the subject will make the current discussion almost moot come July. Summers should therefore take the opportunity afforded by this campus discussion to review the University’s wage structure and to commit to the principle of a just wage for all of Harvard’s workers—outsourced as well as direct...
Wilkinson and Kopp claim that Jabez is attracting nonevangelical audiences, but that is hard to believe, given the book's use of loaded catchwords and concepts. And with some 20 million evangelicals in the country, it is also moot. Says Carolyn Henninger, a bookstore owner in Gainesville, Ga.: "Jabez has changed my life. I had never prayed for the Lord to bless me, to enlarge my territory. It's phenomenal that people I show the book to come back in and buy extra books they're sharing." Henninger has sold 2,300 copies, and says, "I hope I never...
...Chinese version of the letter, using the phrase wan xi (deep sorrow and regret) over the missing pilot, feichang baoqian (extremely sorry) for landing without permission, and feichang wanxi (extreme sympathy) for Wang's family over their loss. Whether or not that was enough for the Chinese was a moot point - Beijing's media simply did their own translation of the English text, in which the double "very sorry" became the very "shenbiao qianyi" (deep expression of apology or regret) that Washington had steered clear of. It's a safe bet that the U.S. embassy's own translation into Chinese...