Word: fecklessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distant Maryland -- and that the President bought only four pairs. Despite his pluck and energy, Buchanan has severe handicaps: low budget, frail organization and an obsession with ideology that may confine his appeal to the right wing. If Buchanan concentrates his fire on Bush as an uncaring patrician whose feckless policies devastated New Hampshire's economy, he could attract some moderates and independents. But if he continues to fog that message with his vaporous isolationism and other right-wing fetishes, he will risk losing his chance to humiliate the President...
...they so poor? I can see my neighbor asking as visions of feckless idlers dance before his narrowed eyes. Ah, that is a question white folks would do well to ponder. Consider, for a start, that African Americans are more likely to be disabled (illness being a famous consequence of poverty) or unemployed (in the sense of actively seeking work) and far less likely to earn wages that would lift them out of the welfare-eligibility range...
...complaints about government meddling to his eager staff of deregulators. The council spearheaded Quayle's attack on lawyers and excess litigation last August, and is preparing to move beyond reviewing new regulations to tackling rules already in place. While Quayle's detractors dismiss the Vice President as silly and feckless, his shrewd handling of the council's affairs is just another sign that he is taking full advantage of his office...
American architecture has spent the past few years in the dumps, fretful and feckless. Aesthetically, there is neither invigorating ferment nor much consensus, and the collapse of both the housing and commercial real estate markets means that even big-name architects have precious little to do right now. So when Richard Meier's final designs for the J. Paul Getty Trust's vast art center, a $360 million, six-building museum-and-art-scholarship wonderland, were unveiled in Los Angeles last week, it wasn't just his envious peers who paid attention. Meier won the commission over 32 fellow architectural...
...city-states of Kievan Rus and Muscovy, and feudal warlords with nukes? What of the 25 million ethnic Russians now intermixed with the newly nationalistic peoples of Ukraine or Kazakhstan? What would happen if the grain harvest proved as poor as predicted, the distribution system remained as feckless as ever, and winter...