Word: mootness
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...John E. Moot, a resident of Coolidge Hill Road, said he thought that aside from housing, traffic is the number one problem for Cambridge...
Though Jamieson made it a moot point by striking out shortstop Steve Dankof on a slider down and away to end the inning, it was a move symbolic of what Harvard did right all weekend--sweating the details...
...Though Jamieson made it a moot point by striking out shortstop Steve Dankof on a slider down and away to end the inning, it was a move symbolic of what Harvard did right all weekend--sweating the details...
...moot point, though, because I don't believe concerns over water safety were really ever the reason people bought bottled water. Bottled water, along with cigars, cell phones and stock options, is a quintessential yuppie accesory. The always-questionable health benefits of bottled water (Perrier, the trendy water of the '80s, was found to contain carcinogenic benzene in 1990) might have been how you justified buying bottled water, but the sad fact is you simply couldn't be seen at the health club with tap. You had to have the right "designer water," as Gary Trudeau called...
...antitrust case. And there are precedents. In 1981, AT&T tried, without success, to avoid a breakup by pushing a bill to restructure the company on more favorable terms. Much later, regional Bell companies, chafing under restrictions of the AT&T decree, were able to get it rendered moot by the 1996 Telecommunications Act. A blunter approach would be to forbid the Justice Department to spend any funds enforcing a court decree. Congress "could make it tough," says the official. But such a fight is likely only if Microsoft invests wisely in Washington...