Word: inept
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...into the realm of abnormal psychology. Like it or not, it is a serious movie, very possibly Friedkin's best. In any case, it almost literally itched this reviewer back to consciousness of the movies' divine and utterly essential scuzziness. Mozart is great, and can survive the indifference of inept filmmakers. Bug probably won't survive the indifference of its distributor (and, since its not teen-friendly) its lack of a neatly targeted demographic. But it may survive in a few capacious cinefile memories - right there next to the Mozart sonatas...
Grinstein's successor as CEO (the front runners are Delta's COO James Whitehurst and CFO Edward Bastian) faces a massive reorganization plan. He will also have to overcome the reputation of airline management as inept--a rap that makes Grinstein bristle. Airlines, he says, are uniquely vulnerable and volatile--even "the latest darling of the industry, JetBlue." "Are we worse run than automobiles? Than the steel companies?" asks Grinstein. "Bob Crandall [former American Airlines CEO] used to say the difficulty in this industry is that you're at the mercy of your dumbest competitor." Airline executives, he says...
...winner of last season’s “Beauty and the Geek,” will have their chance when casting directors from the hit show hold a Boston casting call during reading period. Looking for “intellectually endowed but socially inept men who can turn a shopper into a scholar” and “beautiful, sexy, social-savvy women who can turn a geek into a stud,” the show pairs male and females contestants and puts them through a slough of intellectual and interpersonal challenges, according to the casting director?...
Smith was not, in other words, a man much given to self-doubt by the time he headed for America. At 27, he was ready to put the lessons of hard experience to good use and had little respect for authority he deemed inept or unearned. His open contempt for those he called "our ignorant transporters" landed Smith in the brig, or some such warren of restraint, where he spent one of the most historic voyages in history as the first inmate of record in English America...
...There was nothing heroic left about Yeltsin. In fact, there has never been. There was nothing heroic about his climbing that tank - he knew damn well he was safe; it was a gesture to seal his victory over those inept putschists. He just found an appropriate moment that worked for him to do that...