Word: ineptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FROM the start, the Nixon Administration's handling of the political-espionage scandal in Washington's Watergate complex last June has been amazingly inept. If Watergate had been a childish antic by a few misguided Nixon zealots, as presidential aides insisted, quick and candid disclosure of all the facts would have rendered it a brief summertime sensation. If it was more serious and involved officials close to Nixon, as now seems plain, those implicated should have been exposed and fired. At worst, Nixon's re-election margin might have been less grand. But high Republican and White...
When Gray left HEW in January 1970, the paperwork at HEW bogged down, and Finch developed a reputation as an inept administrator. Gray became an Assistant Attorney General, mainly at the urging of Mardian, a right-wing ideologue who had also worked with him at HEW. Gray impressed his superiors, Mitchell and Kleindienst, while heading the Justice Department's Civil Division. When Mitchell moved over to Nixon's re-election committee and Kleindienst became Attorney General, Gray was designated Deputy Attorney General...
...MORE MUNDANE level, a shift in the Administration's batting order also sapped Union strength. R. Victor Jones, former lead-off man as dean of the GSAS, had helped fuel the initial burst of Union activity last year after an inept performance before a crowd of graduate students...
...preparers at a total (and tax deductible) cost of about $600 million. The IRS stresses that larger firms like H & R Block of Kansas City, Mo., are generally trustworthy. But it suspects that vast amounts of revenue are being lost because of the activities of cheating or inept smaller tax preparers...
Last year MIT, through a combination of inept and biased officiating and Crimson complacency, were lucky enough to grab first, although Harvard had then as now a squad far superior to any in the Boston area. This year, however, coach Don Gambril, not particularly wanting another embarassing loss, sent a representative team capable of winning every event. His swimmers responded by taking all but one race, just enough to beat the Engineers...