Word: inept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...busy wallowing in feelings of inadequacy. For example, I have seen many amazing performances this month by fellow students; at first they make me feel as if I shouldn't have given up those saxophone lessons--until I remember that beyond reading sheet music, I am musically inept. While I wonder what I am good at, I pitch a score of 118 (triple 20, double 20 and single 18). But then I realize that darts will only...
...Vermont leaped into the top spot last weekend with victories over two inept Ivy League squads. The Catamounts (14-3-2, 8-0-1 ECAC) pounced on Princeton Friday, 5-3, and then took care of Yale by a 4-3 count Saturday up at frigid Burlington. The Tigers and the Bulldogs currently occupy the ECAC cellar...
...confront the 'Hillary lied' allegations head on with a press conference." Novak says what's truly baffling is the actions of the White House dealing with the matter. "Firing the travel office was within their rights. It's their handling of the scandal that's been so seemingly inept...
...until everyone but her was numb. The ordeal set a record in the talk-till-they-drop genre of damage control, easily exceeding the 90-minute event held by Geraldine Ferraro. Afterward, slightly more people believed Waldholtz than before, demonstrating that the myth of women as frail and financially inept persists--even if, like Enid, they have spent their careers untangling complicated commercial transactions...
...while her campaign left behind a trail of bounced checks and unpaid vendors. Most people blamed the confusion on Joe. For a man reputed to have a fortune tucked away back East, he was weirdly inept with money. During the campaign it emerged that he had written $60,000 in bad checks to a Salt Lake City luxury-gift store. A mix-up, said Joe. His account in Pennsylvania hadn't been transferred to Utah in time. "There were always explanations,'' says Peter Valcarce, manager of Enid's unsuccessful 1992 campaign and a consultant in 1994, who was paid with...