Word: ineptness
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Pedroni opened the second quarter and closed the Crimson drive with a garbage shot from the crease. The lithe sophomore battled two inept Huskies, got his stick on the ball and shoved it in with a pocket full of turf following to give the stickmen a comfortable 9-3 lead...
Probably no factor has more impeded America's ability to lead the alliance in the current crises than the disdain that allied leaders have for Jimmy Carter. He is generally regarded as being inept and naive, and as a politician who has demonstrated his inability to set a foreign policy course, stick by it and execute it. "Zigzag" and "flipflop" have become part of the scornful lexicon of European diplomats. Among the examples most often cited: Carter's push to have the neutron warhead deployed in Western Europe, winning the support of a reluctant Helmut Schmidt, only to postpone...
...month on an opulent new Chinese restaurant in midtown Manhattan called Dish of Salt. Not a single star did it rate, out of a potential maximum of four; instead, it got a boldface Poor. Sheraton rapped the place for every sin from pretentious décor to "lackadaisical and inept" service. The fish and lobster were "hopelessly overcooked." The egg roll "oozed grease." The spareribs were "dreadful," the dim sum were "stale," the sesame beef roll "stiff and cold." As for the chrysanthemum tea, it "could easily have been matched with water in which artichokes had been cooked...
Despite Carter's weaknesses, Kennedy's are even greater. He has been unable to enlist broad support, the early weeks of his campaign were highlighted by poor planning and inept execution, and the public has refused to forgive him Chappaquiddick. Certainly Reagan, who has already won the support of 1.4 million primary voters, more than twice as many as Bush or Anderson, would hardly have been bypassed by party leaders in favor of either of those two foes under some alternative system. Without the primaries, in all probability, neither Bush nor Anderson would even have gained serious consideration...
...President overwhelmed the Senator by 10 to 1 in his native Georgia, 6 to 1 in neigh boring Alabama, and nearly 3 to 1 in Florida. Carter ran badly in sections of south Florida's Gold Coast, where many Jewish voters, upset over the Administration's inept handling of the United Nations resolution condemning Israel for its settlement policy, cast ballots for Kennedy or "no preference." In all, Carter picked up at least 178 of the 208 delegates at stake in last week's contests so far, for a total of 222 to Kennedy...