Word: inept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hearings may provide a sense of closure that has eluded the affair so far. Still, in an event that coincides with politically-charged hearings on the federal siege at Waco, "the Republicans will be doing their best to paint a picture of an Administration that is at minimum politically inept...
...Santa Clause and The Flintstones. Deliberately inane, lowest-common-denominator movies (talk about "coarseness," Senator), they still manage to present father figures who are, respectively, sullenly distracted and moronically inept...
...agents, mafiosi, Cubans and Kennedy's autopsy doctors hatched a plot remarkable both for its reach and for the fact that in more than three decades not a single participant has sung. Who were these adroit conspirators? The same men who two years earlier launched the quixotic, inept Bay of Pigs operation, and some of whom, it has been alleged, went on to bollix up the Watergate break...
Moving beyond this specific case, what has Harvard done to ensure that things of this nature do not occur again? Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57's statement to the Crimson just about sums up the University's inept response: "We asked them if they could try to prevent these sorts of things from happening." And so a prefrosh is beaten, his application is withdrawn, his assailant is given a slap on the wrist (which is all that probation really amounts to), and the DU does not even receive so much as a mild scolding from the University...
...American electorate welcomed (even expected) assistance from government in solving their problems but nonetheless remained skeptical of state power." As evidenced by the 1994 elections, that skepticism has apparently intensified; millions of voters benefit from Social Security and Medicare and simultaneously complain that government is evil and inept...