Word: inept
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...After the presidency, she basically returned to keeping house and watching over her husband's legacy. But every now and then she would emerge from private life to tell her successors to behave. She helped lead a second People Power uprising to depose the inept government of Joseph Estrada; she also led protests against her former ally, the second woman President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, to warn her against rewriting the constitution to extend her time in office...
...also every so often led public protests opposing the policies of her successors, if not her successors themselves. She led demonstrations to remind Ramos that she had promised to dismantle America's bases in the Philippines. He complied. She joined crowds that led to the overthrow of the inept and corrupt government of the actor-politician Joseph Estrada. She also led protests against her former ally, the second woman President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, in the wake of corruption charges against Arroyo and her husband. Whenever the country appeared to be in a crisis, Cory Aquino rose above...
Sustainable development needs good government. On the back of oil exports to China, Angola's economy has grown by up to 20% a year since civil war ended in 2002. But a corrupt and inept ruling party that has neglected to spread the wealth or diversify the economy means that when the good times end, as they now have, the effects are severe. Ricardo Gazel, the World Bank's representative in Angola, says Angola's GDP is likely to fall by anything from 17% to 23% in 2009. (Read: "World Bank: Crisis Hits Developing Nations Harder...
...both international terrorists (such as those who attacked the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001) and domestic assailants like Timothy McVeigh, who bombed Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995. But security at the government buildings guarded by the Federal Protective Service (FPS) is almost comically inept, according to a disturbing report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Over the past year, undercover investigators visited 10 supposedly high-security buildings in four cities and at each location were allowed inside with bombmaking ingredients. Investigators then walked into restrooms, assembled the devices and freely strolled around with explosives...
...once we were powerful; once it was great to be Italian.” Now, residents of the eternal city hardly seem to know what it means to be citizens of their country. The Tangentopoli corruption scandal of the ‘90s branded Italian politics as full of inept bureaucrats and smarmy opportunists. The current sex controversy adds to the country’s image as a paradoxical place: It is both the epicenter of the Catholic world and yet its citizens seem to display a chauvinistic and shameless licentiousness. On top of that, a land that was previously...