Word: ineptness
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...after years of service to an employer they had somehow failed to qualify for benefits. Others found that changing jobs or being put on layoff could deprive them of their benefits. The disappearance of a company through collapse or merger, or the bankruptcy of its pension fund because of inept or corrupt management (some pension officers have been known to lend money to friends or relatives at low interest) could leave veteran workers with little retirement income or none. In one celebrated pension catastrophe, when the Studebaker auto factory in South Bend, Ind., closed in 1963, 4,500 workers under...
Admitting that he had been "an inept candidate," undone by his blunt speech and stiff bearing, Westmoreland went back to editing his memoirs, due for publication by year's end. Edwards is given almost no chance of survival in the November election against the winner of a Democratic runoff next week. That race pits Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn, 58, against a promising newcomer in South Carolina politics, former Harvard Star Quarterback Charles ("Pug") Ravenel, 36, a Charleston investment banker...
...very intelligent either, considering the amount of inept planning in contemporary society. We would probably be better off rethinking-or better yet, not thinking about-the whole dismal business, if only to put an end to ugly and dramatically unsatisfying products like The Parallax View...
...Toby, and gives full rein to his wellknown comedic talents, whether goosing Maria, hiccuping or extracting hidden booze from unexpected places. He also proves himself, in his fight with Sebastian, to be a really first-rate fencer--which seems all the more impressive in the wake of the sidesplittingly inept duel between Viola and Sir Andrew, both of whose foils fly into the air at the opening engagement en quarte, and, later on, wind up in a single hand. Farcical fencing is no easy trick to pull off, and Patrick Crean deserves great credit for his meticulous staging...
Political pros considered Brown too inexperienced and unbending to survive a tough campaign against such presumed heavyweights as San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto and Assembly Speaker Robert Moretti. But Alioto got bogged down in municipal and marital strife while Moretti waged an inept campaign. Brown, talking vaguely about bringing a "new spirit" to Sacramento, campaigned on a safe liberal platform that stressed open government, campaign reform, and improved education and social benefits. In the end Brown won with 38% of the Democratic vote...