Word: ineptness
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...wishes that could be said for Ted Knight and Too Close for Comfort (ABC, Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.). As Mary Tyler Moore's Ted Baxter, Knight embodied a wonderful comic oaf: vain, inept and hilarious. In his new series he is just another henpecked husband, who must put up with two nubile daughters and fall over a loveseat every eight minutes. The other seven minutes, Too Close slavers over the sight of bountiful Lydia Cornell as she ponders the implications of taking a deep breath. The show can not see the farce for the tease. The actors...
...member of the New York Army National Guard [Sept. 29], I was gratified to read an article that was complimentary to "weekend warriors." We are often scoffed at and maligned as being inept misfits, incapable of performing our tasks. If more men and women would join our thin ranks and we were provided with more modern equipment, no one would have to be concerned about a draft...
...Harvard Crimson's inept reporting irresponsibly allowed Robert Klitgaard's unsubstantiated and out-of-context statements to have detrimental impact on affirmative action policies and programs throughout this country. The "Exams Bias" article was written without any data or description of the methodology used and was also presented in the absence of any basic journalistic inquiry. Since when do raw scores devoid of personal context guage admission? Klitgaard's assertions completely ignore the importance of the socio-economic history of minority groups and women in this country. Why is Klitgaard trying to quantify and reduce to black and white...
...their control. If the economic indicators go up, as they did last week, Carter presumably benefits. Nobody can yet predict what will happen in the Persian Gulf war or who might gain from it. Carter might appear statesmanlike in his role as Commander in Chief, or he might seem inept because of his inability to influence events...
Schelling drew the loudest applause of the evening when he said, "Carter is rather frighteningly inept," adding that when dealing with crises Carter is "too slow to be hard and hard when it doesn't matter...