51.   A senior government official said the point may now be moot.

52.   A terrifying incident that proves the fighting knows no geographic boundaries makes the issue somewhat moot.

53.   A win here, on a course he helped redesign with Tom Weiskopf, would render his tentative tour position moot and mean a two-year exemption.

54.   About the only item in the contract not rendered moot by time was its insistence on massive tax cuts.

55.   After some internal discussion, DiFrancesco rendered the question moot Friday.

56.   All of which is moot, because the plan is not about to see the light of day.

57.   All of this is moot, of course, if Gaston is determined to hold on to the team.

58.   All that became moot once the Knicks made the Finals, and Jackson was hired by the Lakers in June.

59.   All that becomes moot, however, if his bat grows cold in the fall.