Word: inept
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...Security by reducing benefits. Regardless of the degree to which the plan had merit, and elements of it had a lot, it was met with bipartisan outrage on Capitol Hill. Reagan had to disclaim it. For a man who served two terms in the Senate, Schweiker showed himself surprisingly inept in dealing with Congress. He earns a middling C, but only because he does not deserve blame for all of what has happened in his realm...
...right end Fred Leone and the rest of the boys on the front line--who hassled Cuccia-Allard all game long, who held fullback Jim Callinan, averaging 5.3 yards a carry this season going into the Bowl, to just 60 yards on 21 carries--the Elis stalled an inept Multiflex. It was the same story, only twice as bad as last year, when the Elis completely locked out the Harvard strike force, 14-0, in the Stadium...
With that kind of a three-ring policy circus performing in public, the Reagan Administration often looks confused or inept, or both. The Administration's economic advisers in recent weeks have turned more and more to intrigues and attempts to outflank each other and seize the policy initiative. One White House official last week griped bitterly in private to Washington journalists about the low quality of economic advice being given to the President by Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. Meanwhile, Treasury officials issued broadsides of their own. Among the more...
Friends and foes alike consider Kirkpatrick's staff inexperienced and inept. In the past, members of the U.S. mission would keep abreast of a nonaligned meeting, quietly emphasize Washington's interests and encourage friendly delegations to exercise restraint. This time, no one from...
Some sympathetic White House aides say that Allen, who reports to the President mainly through Counsellor Edwin Meese, is now being unfairly cast as a scapegoat. Most insiders, however, feel that he has managed to make a difficult situation worse by his inept efforts on the Hill. "He had neither the clout nor the brains to pull it off," said one Senate aide...