Word: inept
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...European, I am glad that President Carter has at last had the courage to try a military solution to the hostage crisis in Iran [May 12]. No doubt, in the aftermath of the abortive raid, he will be branded as "inept" more than ever before...
...repeatedly," he asserts. His view: conflict makes the best story and if there is none, the press starts looking for it. Barber is especially unhappy with coverage of so-called gaffes. A case in point: Jimmy Carter's remark in 1976 about maintaining "ethnic purity" in neighborhoods. While inept and illadvised, Barber argues, the phrase told nothing about the man, who never before or since could be accused of bigotry. Yet it became a serious campaign issue, as one press account fed on another...
Many city landlords are disgruntled with the laws. Inept administration and stickling adherence to regulation foul the rent control process, stifling efforts to win needed increases. Furthermore, current rent laws make it hard for landlords to do much about tenants who damage their quarters...
...embarrassing enough, but the consequences of the mission that failed were far more serious; they affected everything from the future of Jimmy Carter to the future of U.S. relations with its European allies and Japan. While most of Carter's political foes tactfully withheld criticism, his image as inept had been renewed. Already hurt by mounting economic difficulties at home, the President now had a new embarrassment abroad. The failure in the desert could prove to be a blow to his re-election hopes...
...question the President's intentions, only his competence. They gave him an "A" for effort but an "F" for execution. Said former Reagan Aide Lyn Nofziger: "Some will say at least he tried. But others feel that if we didn't know already he was inept, this proves it. Republicans are not clucking in glee. They are wringing their hands, like the guy I had lunch with who said, 'It took him five months to do this. He could have done it in five days.' " Wisconsin Democratic Congressman Henry Reuss urged Carter to withdraw from...