Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merit system of state employment; 2) a realistic conflict-of-interest law; 3) a fair-elections law, requiring voting machines throughout the state; 4) the first statewide cleanup of Kentucky's voting rolls; 5) an average $1,100 raise in teachers' salaries and a probe of the inept education system; 6) establishment of a $4,000,000 business-development corporation ("little RFC") and a $2,000,000 industrial-loan authority to bolster the state's sagging coal-mining and agricultural economy...
American communications media have been singularly inept or indifferent about covering this story in depth; the New York Times is the only newspaper with full-time correspondents south of the Sahara. Television has recently been making a significant effort on Africa: NBC-TV has covered the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and will soon cover Ghana; CBS-TV plans a feature on Nigeria next month. And while other universities have advanced understanding, Harvard has shared the general somnolence about Africa...
EURf Leon Uris' Exodus, a plodding novel about Israel that could almost serve as a textbook of inept fiction writing...