Word: inept
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Whether at the local, state, or federal level—not to mention the many specific bureaucrats who have been exposed as corrupt or inept in the past weeks—no party involved can claim complete immunity to the charge of an altogether inappropriate level of function...
Nancy Gibb's article described the government's inept response to the disaster. That's one report we should all keep close at hand when Administration officials go on TV and try to rewrite history to save their political skins. MARJORIE HERTELENDY Grafton Township, Ohio...
...Army Corps of Engineers, in a strange rite of reassurance: if man has the power to cause these calamities, maybe he would have the power to prevent them. The speed with which the commentariat moved from covering an actual storm to a political one-hurricanes don't kill people, inept bureaucrats kill people-suggests which subject is more comfortable discussing. Somehow human nature, even at its most disturbing, is less scary than Mother Nature at her most murderously cavalier, thousands dead in a single deep breath...
...reruns; of cancer; in Winston-Salem, N.C. He won over teenagers in the late 1950s as the goateed, bongo-playing beatnik Maynard G. Krebs ("Wooork?!?") in TV's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, but the deft physical comedian found a cult following as Gilligan, a well-intentioned but inept first mate on the wrecked S.S. Minnow...
...reruns; of cancer; in Winston-Salem, N.C. He won over teenagers in the late 1950s as the goateed, bongo-playing beatnik Maynard G. Krebs ("Wooork?!?") on TV's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, but the deft physical comedian found a cult following as Gilligan, a well-intentioned but inept first mate on the wrecked S.S. Minnow...