Word: inept
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...appetizing hors d'oeuvre of an actress can sometimes keep playgoers nibbling on toothpick drama. Broadway's latest dramatic toothpicks. Daphne in Cottage D and There's a Girl in My Soup, are inane, inept, tacky, trivial, and implausible, but Sandy Dennis and Barbara Ferris may yet prove potent teasers of the public palate...
There is some justice in the teachers' claim to power. Those now in charge of the schools, particularly in the big cities, have failed miserably-and teachers cannot be blamed for overcrowded classes, inept texts, pre-Sputnik curriculums. Even the injection of billions of dollars in federal funds, designed specifically to spur innovation, has largely bypassed the classroom teacher. Of some 700 federal grants awarded last year in Michigan, teachers were not consulted in 80% of the cases...
...troubles of the pound led him to change panaceas in mid-crisis. The switch to classic austerity was supposed to give Britain time to rid itself of such long entrenched weaknesses as industrial inefficiency, featherbedding unions, drowsy management and overstaffed business. Instead, complain businessmen, government tinkering has proved so inept as to create new economic distortions. When Royal Dutch/Shell decided to build a new refinery at Teeside in Yorkshire, the government rebated 45% of the cost be cause it lay in a depressed region. On top of that, notes a Shell managing director, F. S. McFadzean, "the Selective Employment...
There was not really all that much to shout about. In October 1899, by his own inept leadership, Robert Baden-Powell, commander of two regiments of a mobile "frontier force," succeeded in getting himself bottled up by Boer Commandant-General Piet Cronje. But if he was no military genius, Baden-Powell was an unquestioned success at public relations. During 217 days of siege, the dispatches from Mafeking were masterpieces of jocose understatement. Baden-Powell wrote some himself and censored those written by war correspondents. Either way, the adoring British public swallowed the stories avidly. They read of the jaunty commander...
...platoon of temporarily paroled cons working behind German lines. For those who have not seen Mission: Impossible on TV or The Professionals and The Dirty Dozen in the movies, Garrison's Filthy Foursome might have some appeal; the video Nazis, however, are shown to be so inept that it is a wonder the war lasted so long...