Word: uncleared
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...meeting was not placed on the council agenda until last week, and many councillors said they were unclear whether they were gathering to evaluate Healy's performance or renegotiate his contract...
Unfortunately, the Crimson may be crippled in back if sophomore defenseman Aaron Kim is slapped with a mandatory one-game suspension for his spearing major and game disqualification against the Eagles. His status is unclear at this time...
...when firms like Napster or Centerspan begin to charge for use of their file-swapping services, it is unclear whether the users will follow--especially with free, though potentially illegal, options still out there...
...when Murphy announced last spring that he too would leave the following year, it was unclear whether Rudenstine or Rudenstine's successor would undertake the search for a new leader of the nation's top-ranked school of education...
...Etymological debate is raging even as you read. Chad was the most looked-up word on merriam-webster.com last Friday. One possible derivation is from chat--small, white pieces of rock produced in lead mining. But what rock and paper have to do with each other (particularly without scissors) is unclear. Another theory, advanced by the New Hacker's Dictionary, is that chad stems from the "Chadless" paper punch, thought to be named after its inventor, that keeps the little pieces off the floor--ergo the pieces must be chad. "There is a legend that the word was originally acronymic...