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Actually, senile traits are not peculiar to the aged. A group of college students and a group of the elderly were recently rated according to the characteristics of senility, and the students were found to be the more neurotic, negative, dissatisfied, socially inept and unrealistic. The students, in sum, were more senile than their elders. Other studies have shown that the percentage of psychiatric impairment of old persons is no greater than that for younger groups...
...poor enough. Barnard's father was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Beaufort West, a country town miles from South Africa's big cities. Father comes across as a charmingly inept eccentric who understood God but could never master a car's gearshift. Mother, though, was a ruthless perfectionist who taught her four children that they must always be first in school and never admit defeat...
...been justly known as "the orphan army." Though its authorized strength of 460,000 makes it NATO's largest European land army, it has been plagued by poor pay, rundown garrisons, manpower shortages (the Bundeswehr is below strength by 2,600 officers and 25,000 noncoms) and inept civilian leadership. Reacting to the strident heel clicking of the Nazi era, the public held the military in low esteem-an attitude abetted by baggy, dull gray uniforms that made even generals look like sloppy bus drivers...
...report seemed to preclude any further criminal action against Kennedy, though a new grand jury investigation is theoretically possible. But it did nothing to solve the mysteries that still surround the case or to resolve the doubts about Kennedy's veracity. It also failed to account for local officials' inept handling of the case from beginning to end. Police Chief Dominick Arena never asked Kennedy why he had not reported the accident for nine hours. District Attorney Edmund Dinis seemed noticeably reluctant to enter the case at all, then pressed belatedly?and vainly?for court permission to exhume Mary...
Regan put his team ahead to stay early in the second period on an unassisted goal, and then. with the help of some inept UMass clearing attempts, Harvard scored four more times before the end of the half for a commanding 6-1 lead. Cle Landolt tallied three of the four, and Phil Zuckerman scored the other...