Word: ineptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balance, the American people had judged Carter to be inept. So inept, indeed, that Senator Edward M. Kennedy, before announcing his candidacy last month, held a 2-to-l lead over Carter as the choice for the Democratic presidential nomination. All that has now changed. Riding a wave of patriotic fervor and a degree of unanimity unseen in this country since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, Jimmy Carter has suddenly become, according to the latest polls, the solid choice to be renominated and re-elected to a second term in the White House...
Some of the publicity material set out to puff this wretchedly inept creaking-door flick compares it to the work of Hitchcock. After the show is over, the viewer may wonder, "Which Hitchcock was that?" Instead of building toward a climax, Stranger strings together three awkward, vaguely related segments. The first concerns a baby sitter (Carol Kane) who is terrorized by phone calls from a homicidal maniac (Tony Beckley). The second, set seven years later, has the maniac loose again, menacing a woman (Colleen Dewhurst) in a bar. The third has him on the trail of the baby sitter...
...press reports had alleged. But less persuasive is Curran's conclusion that no banking or conspiracy laws were violated by the eccentric loan arrangements between Carter's warehouse and Lance's National Bank of Georgia. Curran's team found a quagmire of shoddy business dealings, inept management and astoundingly irregular transactions...
...businessmen, extorting at least $40 million in ransoms. The kidnapings sparked a flight of foreign capital that further weakened the tottering economy of one of the hemisphere's more densely populated nations (531 people per sq. mi.). Presiding over the chaos was General Carlos Humberto Romero, 57, an inept military despot who was despised even by his reluctant supporters in the armed forces...
...spitting on the floor even in his cherished laboratories. A picturesque swearer who hired assistants whom George Bernard Shaw called "sensitive, cheerful and profane; liars, braggarts and hustlers." A would-be tycoon so crotchety and bullheaded that he could give little credit to the ideas of others; so inept in business matters that he lost control of the immensely profitable companies he founded. An incurable show-off and self-promoter who circulated so many myths about his personality and accomplishments that 48 years after his death historians are still struggling to separate legend from fact...