Word: ineptly
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...United States furnishes particularly good opportunities for the moaners and groaners. Its material wealth forms a perfect background against which to accentuate its inept statesmanship, its political stupidity, its immorality, social injustice and inequality, the break up of its families and churches, and the pitiful inadequacy of its educational facilities. And their charges are true, but they are not the whole story. From the times of the earliest settlers in Massachusetts, the society of the United States has been built upon the bifurcation of an economic system which emphasizes acquisitiveness and a religion which makes every man his brother...
...Wellesley, and red-rimmed eyes that are a consequence of this misunderstanding are many and unnecessary. Unnecessary because the Bureau can quite demonstrably help the undergraduate to run through his average study problems like a hot knife through margarine. This fact is important because many men unknowingly employ hideously inept study methods, but achieve moderately good marks through huge outlays of study time. Such stumblers in the dark, as well as grade-hawks, may find it interesting that the marks of 8 out of 10 men rise after their exposure to Bureau methods, and that reading speeds are accelerated...
...calls Franco. For once, there were no complaints of indecisiveness raised against him at home. In this first volume of his memoirs, the British Ambassador reviews these years, and draws from their experience a few striking and forceful, if not novel, conclusions. His complete condemnation of Franco as an inept dictator is the most vigorously expressed of these conclusions...
Between the implacable and inept extremes are Greece's tragically feeble centrists, chief among them Liberal Themistocles Sophoulis, 86, a former archeologist who has proved vacillating despite his deceptively brisk voice and snapping black eyes (Greek cartoonists usually picture him rushing off to the men's room), and Themistocles Venizelos, bridge-playing, insignificant son of Eleutherios Venizelos, Greece's last first-rate politician (he was forced to resign in 1935. died...
...that bad. China's largely agricultural economy has not much to do with foreign-exchange fluctuations in Shanghai. But the latest slump in the Chinese dollar, aggravated by inept Chinese Government public relations and feverish reporting, was bad enough...