Word: ineptly
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...issue is not that simple. In many cases a raider's acquisition bid may be one of the few defenses that shareholders have against inept, self- serving and complacent management. Many economists, along with key figures in the Reagan Administration, believe executives should be subjected to the full discipline of the marketplace, including the threat of takeover...
...damaging to those who are rejected. Two years ago I didn't make the Pudding lottery, but it wasn't a big deal because I just figured I was unlucky. But people who are not accepted now are not just unlucky in the draw--they're judged "socially inept...
...this kind of activity. President of the University Derek C. Bok has promised new guidelines to prevent a repeat of this fiasco, and one can only wish him Godspeed. But as Dean Spence's secretive and timorous handling of the Safran affair demonstrates, the University has been slow and inept at adapting to new funding problems to the current drain on research resources...
...This is one of the most inept laser shows I'veever seen. Maybe practicing once would have been agood idea. If there's any way to stop the paycheck to the people doing these lasers, theyshould do it," said Doug Duda, a film producer whograduated from the Harvard Business School lastyear...
...abuse, in Dickens' time and our own. Fans of the original will find few differences in the new staging, again by Trevor Nunn (Cats) and John Caird (Les Miserables). Most of the performances seem like carbon copies. Two are distinct improvements. As Vincent Crummles, proprietor of a hammily inept acting troupe, Tony Jay is a figure of majesty, an artist surrounded by buffoons whose incompetence he must overlook because some of the worst are members of his family. As Lord Frederick Verisopht, the luxuriating rake who accosts Nicholas' sister, Simon Templeman reveals a dreamy, drunken boy, easily misled, whose final...