Word: hapless
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...club of hapless traders who have squandered fortunes in global commodities markets?think Nick Leeson, who bankrupted 232-year-old Barings Bank in 1995, or the Sumitomo Metals trader who blew $1.8 billion in 1996?add a new member: Liu Qibing of Beijing's State Reserve Bureau (SRB), whose wrong-way bet on copper prices may cost the Chinese government tens of millions of dollars...
...While there must be limits to making hapless justifications for male reticence, that doesn’t mean there are no alternate reasons for your cell phone’s conspicuous silence...
DERY: But there's also an upside to sociological clustering, at least online. In the 1950s, if you had the hapless happenstance of being born gay in Oklahoma, you might have spent many a lonely night biting your pillow and cursing the heavens for making you the only gay on earth. Now any 18-year-old with a modem is just a click away from a universe of fellow travelers, and to me, that's a good thing...
...Doug Derraugh will have his hands full directing a squad whose top returning scorer, Brianne Schmidt, potted just nine goals last season and whose penalty kill allowed opponents to convert a full third of their power plays a year ago. Cornell can take solace, however, in the presence of hapless Union, which should separate the Big Red from the cellar...
...same time corporate executives are paid retirement dollars for years they never worked, hapless employees lose supplemental retirement benefits for a lifetime of actual work. Just ask Betty Moss. She was one of thousands of workers at Polaroid Corp.--the Waltham, Mass., maker of instant cameras and film--who, beginning in 1988, gave up 8% of their salary to underwrite an employee stock-ownership plan, or ESOP. It was created to thwart a corporate takeover and "to provide a retirement benefit" to Polaroid employees to supplement their pension, the company pledged. Alas, it was not to be. Polaroid was slow...