Word: inept
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...pennant-fever hoopla--culminating in "N-C-double-A" cheers from the stands--did little more than consign Harvard to playing an especially inept Punch to Cornell's overly-enthusiastic Judy...
There are many reform proposals in addition to those the A.M.A. is urging. One is to base insurance fees on a doctor's individual record. Higher rates for physicians with many malpractice judgments could mean lower rates for competent physicians, and might even price inept doctors out of the market. University of Virginia Law Professor Jeffrey O'Connell, the co-developer of no-fault auto insurance, has proposed a system that would allow a doctor to pay for a victim's economic losses in exchange for being free of further liability. A 1985 Illinois law provides for pretrial panels...
...fear not. It can now be happily reported that far from a boy, the French actress will play a voluptuous, Dorothy Lamour-type % character in what is supposed to be a madcap throwback to the Hope-Crosby Road classics--with Hoffman doing the wisecracking and Beatty as a sometimes inept sexual bumbler. This should require the best performing talents of both Beatty and Adjani, since the two are said to be real-life nearly-weds...
...hand are corporate raiders and many economists, who argue that takeovers and mergers help to make businesses more efficient. The threat of a takeover can be an effective way of dislodging inept managers. To Carl Icahn, the typical chief executive is merely "a nice guy, a good drinking buddy." Sir James Goldsmith, a feared acquisitor who gained control of the Crown Zellerbach paper company last summer, told Congress that he has freed firms from "the dead hand of the bureaucrat" who produced only "complacency, ossification and decline...
...record itself is permeated with gross misuse and abuse of synthesizers. The fervent pounding of ex-drummer Topper Headon has been replaced on many tracks by ineptly programmed drum machines. The rhythm tracks as a whole are little more than another inept rehash of mainstream British synth-pop. Even Strummer's sharp-edged guitar which figured so prominently on the band's early works, has lost its character, now grinding like a Husker Du album played into a feather pillow. It is generally accepted that Strummer has no vocal talent, and this record provides precious little evidence to the contrary...