Word: ineptly
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...that can be said about Kennedy's record on Vietnam was that--when he wasn't being a full-blown hawk--he was timid as the war grew, indecisive, and left the details to others (some of those others, like Ambassador Frederick "Fritz" Nolting in Saigon, were blind and inept; some, like McNamara, were too clever for anyone's good...
Galina Starovoitova, a top aide to Boris Yeltsin, has reason to fear a second coup. While visiting Edinburgh last month, she had a chance encounter with Alexander Nevzorov the ultra-nationalist Soviet TV journalist. The Yeltsin staffer says that Nevzorov, spewed his contempt for the bumblers who conducted their inept coup in an alcoholic haze. "Next time," Starovoitova says he told her, "we won't fail. We'll arrest the opposition before announcing that we have taken over. You will be one of those we will arrest...
Similarly indignant questions are being echoed all over Louisiana. In the thick piney woods near Mansfield, in the rural, Protestant north, Duke recently gave some 150 white partisans at a local V.F.W. hall his well- modulated litany of how an inept government and its wasteful social programs are taking advantage of law-abiding middle-class folks. "There is no bigger problem we have in Louisiana and in the country than the rising welfare underclass," he told them. "We're never going to have fiscal reform in Louisiana until we have welfare reform...
...baseball, as in other businesses, two cardinal rules apply: be smart and be lucky. The postmodern era adds: but first you must be inept. If a franchise is bad enough long enough, it gets to draft some good young talent (as the Braves did with Steve Avery, David Justice and John Smoltz). Then, if it is canny, it will trade one pricey player for two or three prospects (as the Twins did last year, losing Frank Viola to the Mets and gaining three blossoming pitchers in return). Finally, if fortune is kind, the team will find a few middle-income...
...didn't want to get involved with what is perceived to be one of the more inept organizations on campus. But I did want to serve on a student-faculty committee, and the council selects students from its own membership to respresnt undergraduate interests before the administration...