Word: ineptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mess. The mayor faces an estimated budget deficit of $120 million for this fiscal year, when total spending will reach $11.8 billion, and a walloping deficit of $641 million for 1975-76. But the red ink was years in the making; it flowed especially during the profligate, sometimes inept administration of John Lindsay, who accelerated the practice of borrowing heavily to meet current expenses...
...many South Vietnamese, Thieu's determination to hang on in Independence Palace was more ominous than the bombing. The reclusive President had lost almost all that remained of his popularity and credibility by his inept handling of the ARVN retreat from the Highlands. That was apparent by the trouble that Nguyen Ba Can, the new Prime Minister whom Thieu had charged with organizing a "fighting Cabinet," was having in recruiting new ministers. By week's end, the new Cabinet was nearly formed, but contained no new major figures capable of inspiring new confidence in the government. Nonetheless...
...ultimately a false answer. Though some good is done, some lives saved and changed for the better, humanitarian aid has powerful negative effects. Essentially, it places the burden of change on the individual, neglecting the social roots of his condition. The paternalism inherent in aid ("these poor folks are inept and need help") is another negative factor...
Meanwhile, observers were still trying to piece together the events that led up to the abortive right-wing coup. The attempt was so inept that some people in Lisbon speculated that the left may have deliberately stirred up violence in hopes of provoking a premature right-wing effort to seize power so that it could be easily crushed. In an ironic twist, former President António de Spínola, the alleged leader of the plot, wound up in exile in Brazil along with former Dictator Marcello Caetano, whose regime he helped topple last year. In an interview...
...promised to be the most important such meeting in years. Principal topic on the six-day agenda was the compromesso storico -the "historic compromise" under which for the first time the Communists seek partnership in an Italian government. As a result of economic disorder and disenchantment over an inept succession of center-left coalition governments dominated by the Christian Democrats, Communist hopes have never been brighter...