Word: ineptness
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...White House staff has been no help in setting a consistent foreign policy line, and that is where the leadership must come from in the end. William P. Clark, who replaced the inept Richard Allen as Reagan's National Security Adviser in January, is too new in his job to enforce coordination between Haig and Weinberger, let alone advance any strong ideas of his own. Moreover, Reagan's other top aides appear almost as uncomfortable with foreign policy issues as the President does. Too often they see these issues in domestic political terms-namely, how a decision will...
...lavished most of his attention on his favorite sports-baseball, boxing, horseracing and football-but he also was a keen lover of the outdoors and wrote with affection about fishing. "He might have been a great athlete," Smith once wrote of himself, "except that he is small, puny, slow, inept, uncoordinated, myopic and yellow...
...elevation of German art in the '20s-Nolde, Beckmann, Kirchner, Macke. If only it could! What we get, it turns out, is more art about art about art, another small room in the mirror-lined flophouse of late modernity. This sort of idealist regression seems either contrived or inept, and sometimes both. It mimics deep feeling, but in an oblique and often perfunctory...
Thus the people survive, indeed flourish, in spite of a vast gap between them and their ineffective governments. They survive in spite of a welfare system out of control, schools and social services in disarray, flagrant corruption and a bureaucracy so swollen and inept that it is mocked as lacci e laccioli, shackles and snares. A letter arrived two weeks ago at the home of one Giuseppe Baggio in Bassano Del Grappa. Baggio had mailed it to his mother from a military prison camp 37 years ago. Many Italians were surprised: the letter had actually arrived...
Saxon became convinced that most introductory algebra texts used in high schools are unclear and confusing, often hindering students from learning the rudiments. He attributed the frightening decline in mathematics test scores across the country to abstruse textbooks written in the name of the New Math by "arrogantly inept" mathematicians who do not teach beginners. Like many other classroom algebra teachers, he found that such textbooks emphasize mathematical theory at the expense of practice and are usually written in baffling jargon. Emphasis is placed on rapid exposure to many "topics," or procedures. Before students can master one topic, explains Saxon...