Word: fecklessness
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That's why most of the questions raised about Thelma & Louise seem so weirdly inappropriate. Does it offer suitable "role models"? Is the "violence" its heroines mete out to their tormentors really "empowering" to women, or does it represent a feckless sacrifice of the high moral ground? Is its indiscriminate "male bashing" grossly unfair to an entire...
...states are contemplating new taxes and making painful cuts into budget funds for schools, police and other government services. Every time a bank totters or an S&L tumbles or an insurance company collapses into bankruptcy, a shudder goes through the nation. The old concerns about Bush's feckless approach to domestic issues are beginning to reappear. "The serious problems haven't been addressed," says Houston lawyer Patrick Dugan, a Bush supporter who usually votes Republican. "The deficit, S&Ls, plummeting real estate. People were scared during the war. All the Saddam rhetoric, they focused on that...
...York Times," writes Roth. "He worshiped that paper and loved to spend the morning reading it through, but now, instead of buying his own, he waited all day long to have a copy passed on to him by somebody in his building who had been feckless enough to fork over the 35 cents...
...polls giving him a 15-point lead in September, initially waged a smug campaign. Then he was sucked into a controversy over his party's initial gubernatorial candidate, Jon Grunseth, who was eventually forced to quit the race because of allegations of sexual misconduct. Boschwitz came across as feckless during that ugly dispute. As his lead slipped, his camp committed what political analyst D.J. Leary called "one of the most incredible political blunders I've ever seen in 30 years." The Senator's supporters circulated a letter among Jewish voters accusing Wellstone of weak commitment to his religion: "His children...
...other party is reverting to its tax-and-spend traditions. The politics of resentment leaves a bitter aftertaste that demagogues can exploit. As the rhetoric escalates between now and Election Day, neither side will earn much trust or support from voters whose anger is aimed directly at Washington's feckless ways...