Word: moots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make every attempt to present the company as it really is." But he finds that B-School students are looking at Exxon "in terms of what challenges and opportunities it presents to them--once they get an understanding of the integrity of the management of Exxon that becomes a moot point." McCreery insists that he attempts to portray an accurate--not idealized--picture of Exxon to interested students. "We try to portray Exxon as it is--that way, we both profit...
...means this both religiously and politically; like every other principle to which Michael adheres, there is no separating the two. The question of the relationship between church and state is moot, or, more precisely, irrelevant. Without a pause, the transition between politics and religion is as smooth as butter. "Our citizens are ignorant because the pastors, the priests and the rabbis have not been teaching them the Bible.3
...political controversy over an undeniably political appointment. And even if Bok's argument that he needs to defend conservative appointments today so he can defend Marxists against the Joseph McCarthys of the future were valid, the scarcity of Marxists at Harvard to begin with makes this a moot point. And the decision not to offer the respected Afro-Am scholar Eugene D. Genovese a professorship because of his "controversial"--read Marxist--background makes it a laughable point...
...Rather, Harvard's reputation was at stake, for to grant credit widely for study abroad would be to admit openly that another university can provide an educational experience equal to a year at Harvard. The collective ego recoiled at such a thought, and the problem of study abroad became moot...