Word: ineptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passage of Proposition 13 in California is beyond any doubt the political event of the century, and Howard Jarvis [June 19] has proved himself a leader to be reckoned with. I nominate him to lead a crusade for constitutional fiscal restraints on our spendthrift, irresponsible, inept Congress...
...result, some programs have become spectacularly wasteful, inept and indeed corrupting. A sampling of the major culprits...
Though Mobutu is as inept as he is ruthless, most Western governments feel there is no real alternative to him in sight as a ruler for a huge country (905,562 sq. mi.) with seemingly insoluble tribal conflicts. The French government is anxious to remove the 700 Foreign Legionnaires who freed Kolwezi and replace them with a peace-keeping force to be furnished by several African states. Last weekend U.S. transport planes began flying French troops out of Zaïre and replacing them with Moroccans as the first units of a peace-keeping command. But unless the legionnaires are replaced...
...Government pursued its prosecution with immense care and zeal, for more was at stake than the fates of a pair of inept spies. The trial, which ended in the colonial courthouse in Alexandria, Va., last Friday, set the stage for the testing of a crucial constitutional question: whether a U.S. President can order wiretaps without a judicial warrant in cases involving national security...
...press is only a part of this picture, but there is a danger that the famous "adversary" relationship between the press and the White House is turning into bitter, destructive hostility-on both sides. Carter has been disappointing and in some ways inept. No denying his shortcomings: the failure to seem in charge and to set convincing priorities, the stubbornness alternating with vacillation, the moralizing alternating with often clumsy political maneuvers, the uncertain economic line, the poor staff. But there is too little recognition that much of the fault lies with the rest of us-meaning the country...