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Word: ineptly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conflict between the laws of God and the laws of man was obviously warring within Daniel Ellsberg. By following the dictates of his conscience, he has performed an invaluable service to the citizens of this country. The exposure of the unbelievably inept handling of an inexcusable war can have only positive long-term effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 19, 1971 | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...worst mistake in our history has been to give women the privilege of voting. Women vote for the handsome face of Mayor Lindsay. This inept mayor and worst administrator in our history has the nerve to think of running for presidential office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 28, 1971 | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

Rockefeller: "Progress is being seriously hindered by a growing loss of confidence in the city due to inept and extravagant administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Out in a Rowboat with Mayor Lindsay | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...Carswell and his inept PR men proffered the carcass, it was those who devoured and digested the bad news that turned his defeat from a must into a fact. Behind the scenes men and women like Mrs. Marian Edelman of the Washington Research Project and James Flug, Senator Kennedy's lawyer, and Morris Abram, Harvard '71, gathered information and shoved it down the Senate's throat. The press, most notably the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Washington Evening Star and the Atlanta Constitution, kept the issue in the public...

Author: By Tina Rathborne, | Title: Books Decision | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

Bluff and Reality. Such moves are only a recognition of reality. The Nixon Administration last week may have been indulging in inept bluffing, but the fact that so drastic an idea as a special U.S. tariff on Japanese goods could even be discussed illustrates how dangerously monetary imbalances are fanning political bitterness and protectionist sentiment round the world. The undervaluation of the yen is now by far the greatest of those imbalances. The sooner a revaluation of the yen comes, and the bigger it is, the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: A Yen for Revaluation | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

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