Word: fecklessness
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...lean on banks to keep the loans flowing. It can also pass legislation sponsored by John McCain that imposes mandatory arbitration of labor disputes, removing the threat of crippling strikes from the unions? hand and keeping labor costs manageable. It could even get tougher on salaries than the feckless two-years-no-executive-raises condition imposed on the first $5 billion payout. (CEO Stephen Wolf of already-failing US Airways will now have to get by on $11 million a year until...
...describes Maude. "She is a Roosevelt liberal who has her feet firmly planted in the '40s." Maude knows how to arrange all the right-thinking enlightened attitudes around herself, but when she is challenged they open up like gunwales on a galleon, and she blazes away with broadsides at feckless repairmen, greedy cab drivers and her priggish right-wing neighbor...
...will have to sort these matters out all over again when we start having women presidents. Will it be fathers who primarily form women presidents? Will the fathers be saints or - like, say, Jackie Kennedy's dad - feckless rogues...
...Kremlin and its allies have portrayed the campaign to close NTV as purely a financial affair: an aggrieved shareholder, the state natural gas monopoly Gazprom, demanding its money back from a feckless and allegedly dishonest tycoon. In fact the move was born of Putin's deep dislike for that tycoon, NTV's owner and founder Vladimir Gusinsky, who could use his station for vendettas but also created a news operation highly critical of Putin's policies in places like Chechnya. Gazprom, meanwhile, is state-controlled and highly dependent on the Kremlin's graces. Moreover, the seizure was accompanied...
...Parliament in Strasbourg to be scrapped because no one bothered to turn up for votes, a move that has saved taxpayers millions of euros; Clegg has campaigned for the Parliament's over-generous system of pay and allowances to be scaled back; and Van der Laan has called for feckless institutions like the Committee of the Regions, which represents local and regional interests, to prove their worth or face the axe. "Ironically, being a bit of an insider helps you be a bit more of a reformer," says British Liberal Clegg...