Word: inept
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...family-held pharmaceutical house - a topic whose entertainment possibilities are soon exhausted. All but one of the unappetizing characters are in desperate need of liquidity, and one of them has bumped off the firm's founder, who was a holdout against going public. Now the villain keeps making inept attempts on the life of the founder's daughter (Audrey Hepburn), who has succeeded to the presidency and to her father's no-sale policy...
...international tycoon's kept woman. Unfortunately he keeps her very far away- in Mexico, while he is on a yacht off Monte Carlo. When he calls, she jumps, and all this abrupt, unexplained commuting takes its toll on Martin. A decent director (rather than the inept Anthony Harvey) might have spared her some of her most embarrassing moments, either with some lively, distracting staging or by simply calling "Cut" sooner...
...listens well and, as one aide puts it, "prides himself on being able to get along with other people." Rather like ex-President Gerald Ford, he has an unnerving gift for bumping into inanimate objects and asking inept questions. For example, he inquired of a moped rider: "Is that motorized...
...Leader Robert Mugabe, meanwhile, spent most of the week with his soldiers in the Mozambican bush. Mugabe's colleagues in the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) have nothing but contempt for Muzorewa, whom they regard as inept, indecisive and thin-skinned. Scorning him as "Queen Abel," a mere figurehead, they believe he will be unable either to end the war or gain real power from the country's 212,000 whites, who retain a strong behind-scenes voice in the government and have had outright control over the army, police, civil service and judiciary for ten years. Says...
...struggling to curb inflation, create jobs and sharpen its competitiveness in world markets, the purpose of antitrust policy should be to enhance efficiency. Most conference participants felt that a further tightening of antitrust policy might promote inefficiency by immunizing some big slow-moving companies from takeovers and protecting inept managers from being tossed out. Kennedy-Metzenbaum, remarked Rohatyn, "could be called the Large and Inefficient Business Protection Bill." The way to reduce conglomerate mergers, he added, is to improve economic policy. Bringing down inflation would lead to lower interest rates and higher stock prices. Companies then would no longer have...