Word: hamming
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...dismiss Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on allegations of misconduct, the move backfired on Musharraf. Massive rallies in support of the suspended judge swept the country, and moderate Pakistanis who had previously tolerated Musharraf as a bulwark against corruption and Islamist extremism began to view him as a ham-fisted dictator attempting to remove a potential obstacle to his plan to remain in office. Chaudhry was reinstated by the Court last month, and today's ruling is an indication of the willingness of the bench to flex its muscles...
...lawless frontier lands along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan - a U.S. report issued two weeks ago warned that al-Qaeda and the Taliban had reconstituted in the area - but also from Pakistan's middle-class moderates, who are angry with the President for what they see as his ham-fisted attempts over the past four months to oust the country's chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, a potential obstacle to Musharraf's plans for re-election...
...indicative of one thing: the al-Qaeda-inspired fondness of jihadists to coordinate strikes in a short space of time to produce a siege mentality among the public. Nevertheless, the general consensus among security experts in Britain and Europe is that the technology involved is amateurish and the strategy ham-handed. "In a world with very efficient explosives and lots of recipes for home-made explosives available, using gas cans and nails would suggest a very modest degree of technical ability," notes one veteran French counter-terrorism official, referring to the 60 liters of gasoline, commercially-sold canisters of cooking...
...aside and warn them not to take a paternity leave if they want to be taken seriously. On TV and in movies and magazine ads, the image of fathers over the past generation evolved from the stern, sturdy father who knew best to a helpless Homer Simpson, or some ham-handed galoot confounded by the prospect of changing a diaper. Teachers call parent conferences but only talk to the mothers. When father arrives at the doctor's office with little Betsy, the pediatrician offers instructions to pass along to his wife, the caregiver presumptive. The Census Bureau can document...
...never occurred to the generals that Chaudhry would say no," says Ahsan. "So when he did, they had no plan B." What transpired instead was an increasingly ham-fisted attempt to contain the subsequent public outrage by cracking down on media coverage of the ongoing crisis. On Thursday, the Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority banned live talk shows. On Friday it banned any live coverage of the Chief Justice's rally the next day in Abbottabad. On Saturday authorities sent letters to cable companies telling them not to air programs that encourage an "anti-state attitude" or that contain "aspersions against...