Word: haplessness
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...lenders?UFJ, Sumitomo Mitsui Bank and Mizuho Holdings?to extend additional credit at crucial moments in order to keep it alive. UFJ is urging Daiei's management to accept assistance from the Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan (IRCJ), a state-backed bank designed to overhaul Japan's most hapless companies. Meanwhile, U.S. retailing juggernaut Wal-Mart, which already owns 38% of Japanese retailer Seiyu and is looking for a greater presence in the country, has met with the IRCJ and confirmed that it is interested in taking a stake in Daiei...
...representative on the European Commission. Of Mandelson's talents and aptitude for the job there is little doubt. He is one of the Labour Party's most passionate pro-Europeans and a principal architect of the party's 1980s makeover from an unpopular assemblage of hapless lefties to the formidable centrist vote-getting machine it became under Blair. But he is also Machiavellian and polarizing. He has had to quit the Cabinet twice, first in 1998 when he failed to disclose a loan from another Minister, then again in 2001 when he was alleged to have intervened improperly to secure...
...addition to Ali G, Baron Cohen’s repertoire of oddball journalistic characters includes hapless Kazakhstani correspondent Borat and egomaniacal Austrian fashion reporter Bruno...
...resist some playful partisan point scoring. He pairs a weak-willed but telegenic President with a Mephistophelian, scientifically ignorant Veep, played by an obvious Dick Cheney look-alike. After the storm hits, tens of thousands of American refugees flee south--whereupon Mexico promptly closes its borders, leaving the hapless, desperate gringos to wade in droves across the Rio Grande...
...Drew) and Bob Saget (the girls' dad on Full House), we get to observe the mortification of some fine comic actors: Eugene Levy as a truant officer who thinks he's Dirty Harry, Andrea Martin as a Senator, Andy Richter as a klutzy villain and Darrell Hammond as the hapless victim of the twins' artless physical comedy...