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...reports on Capitol Hill gives the agency an over-all grade of Cminus. The agency gets pretty good marks for its reporting on Russia and China, and it feels it has stayed on top of developments in turbulent Central America. In Iran, on the other hand, it was embarrassingly inept. Says Birch Bayh, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: "Technologically, it's unbelievable what we have the capacity to do. Our weakness is what we do with the information when we get it. We know the number of tanks belonging to the Warsaw Pact powers...
...laughing matter for the Crimson, even though the team had a 10-5 win handed to them by an inept Boston College squad. The Eagle infield, which should team up with the "Three Stooges" outfield of MIT to form the utter defensive horror show, made three of the team's four errors and pushed across five unearned runs, better known as the margin of victory...
...Jimmy Carter's foreign policy is inept. He has not been able to start even a little...
...derived from Rio Bravo, a late Howard Hawks film. Assault largely inexperienced cast lurches beneath the preposterous weight of a self-consciously anachronistic script. The dialogue is as tersely as any Hawk's film, and it is often difficult to tell whether the actors mouthing it are sarcastic or inept. All the same, spry gusts of parody whip around the edges of certain lines and actions. There is for example, a disarmingly silly moment when two of the men trapped in the station, squabbling about who should risk an unlikely escape attempt, settle on a quick game on one-potato...
...CARTER stalked into office two years ago confident that he could stop inflation and balance the federal budget. For the most part he was fought his war on inflation with disapproving cooperation to control rising prices. To one battle, however, Carter carried a real weapon, and proved himself completely inept in wielding it against his enemy, the medical profession...