Word: cluelessness
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...computer system so bad? The bureau?s techno-phobia was one problem, as was an almost religious adherence to tradition. Of course, no one was helped by perennially bad decision-making by bureaucrats who are, for the most part, clueless about the leaps being made in information technology. "When the Bureau began its "computerization" in the mid-1980s, we were operating with very limited funding and the belief that we could do everything we needed to do with in-house talent," John Sennett, head of the FBI Agents Association, wrote in a recent e-mail gently admonishing his members...
...rest of the world. They knew something else that Lott was in the dark about. The Jeffords deal had been practically sealed a full week before. In fact, for almost a month, Daschle and Reid had conducted their secret negotiations under Lott's nose, with the Republican leader clueless that he was the victim of a silent, slow-motion fleecing...
...clueless are they? In a telling survey, Oppenheimer Funds found that 37% of holders felt they understood Einstein's theory of relativity better than their options. A shocking 11% said they had allowed vested, in-the-money options (those with immediate cash value) to expire and become worthless. The knowledge void has brought employee lawsuits, even bankruptcies by those who grossly mismanaged their windfall, losing all in the bear market...
...miss, suffering not because of weak voices or poor acting, but because of odd choices (and in many cases, a complete absence of choices). As the Princes, Christian E.K. Lerch ’04 and Dan P. Berwick ’01, lack chemistry and play so clueless and foppish that the obvious comedy of their duets, “Agony,” is undercut and their overall characterizations suffer. When Berwick, though, shares the stage with the Baker’s Wife or Cinderella he is on the exact right pitch. Karoun A. Demirjian...
...fortune to be made is what most workers in the travel industry in Asia have in mind when dealing with Japanese tourists. Despite the increase in Japanese backpackers and solo travelers, many in the industry still view holidaymakers from Japan as either rich, clueless shopaholic shutterbugs with a penchant for endless golf or repressed salarymen looking for illicit sex. And, like the fortune tellers at Hsing-tian Temple, Asians have learned that catering to Japanese tastes is far more lucrative than hosting any other group...