Word: inept
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...slaying mobsters, the theory holds, makes for fewer mobsters. Even if that cynical hypothesis were morally acceptable, it would break down, because the gunplay between New York's embattled clans, which has claimed 23 known victims in the past 14 months, is being carried on by some singularly inept, trigger-happy hoods...
...ratings. According to his complaint, the firm sends out confidential questionnaires from its headquarters in Summit, N.J., to already-rated attorneys in an applicant's area. Belli argues that this system creates "a self-perpetuating trust" that favors "a small, silk-stocking, knickerbocker, split-fee club of inept commercial lawyers," and discriminates against "far more capable young lawyers who are not yet involved with the Establishment." To support his contention, Belli cites the fact that although the A.B.A. canons of ethics forbid lawyers to advertise, the A.B.A. has permitted firms and individual lawyers to take ads in any approved...
...Some Laborites tried to canonize the Pentonville Five by comparing them to the Tolpuddle Martyrs-six laborers who were sent to a penal colony in 1834 for organizing a trade union. Labor Party Chief Harold Wilson, who led the attack on Heath in Commons, scourged Tory labor policy as "inept and malevolent." He ignored the fact that as Prime Minister in 1969 he had not only pressed unsuccessfully for similar reforms but also called them "essential...
...black person who lived in the South during the early stages of integration, your article about those guilt-ridden whites who overreacted to the title The Legend of Nigger Charley [July 3] reminded me of an inept elementary school teacher who changed the name of one of the animals pictured on order her wall from "raccoon" to "racnero" in order to "make 'them' feel to welcome...
...fact, and he is one of the few writers today who understand police work and can make policemen both believable and human. The most interesting thing about his novel is the squaring off between the young cop, whose name is Bo Lockley, and the police establishment. Bo is an inept, unskeptical idealist, "hurt by animals he didn't know were in the jungle." Of course the foolhardy girl agent should not have been allowed to pursue her plan of seducing the pusher in order to get information. But if she had succeeded, her superiors, who greedily let her risk...