Word: ineptness
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...enduring sanctity of the kingship. These ritual impeachments, known to anthropologists as "the drama of kingship," were a way to handle conflicts that might otherwise have led to the demise of the tribe or nation; they provided both a vehicle for protest and a method for replacing an inept or evil leader--without a major social upheaval. But while regular impeachments bade well for the fate of the society, the fate of each king was always thought to be a sad one in the eyes of the people, for the king had to bear both the burdens of office...
...hours, pencil in teeth, thumbing through sheaves of coffee-stained bills spread over a kitchen table, one concludes that he could be a victim of some inept tax advisory preparers." The St. Louis Globe Democrat thought that "it is entirely reasonable to assume that the IRS would have dealt more generously with someone less vulnerable than the President." The Wall Street Journal, while siding with Nixon's taxmen in believing that the deductions on the papers could be defended, observed that "the nation has a right to expect better of Presidents" than Nixon's efforts to cut every conceivable...
...President Nixon, whose popularity has been at an all-time low for months. Harris found 69% of Americans thought Congress was doing only a "fair" or "poor" job. In an earlier survey, 68% of those polled expressed similar negative feelings about Nixon. Says Harris: "The federal establishment looks paralyzed, inept and impotent. In ten years of the Harris survey, confidence has never been this low before...
Although widely accused of an ostrich-like refusal to admit that anything is wrong and "plain incompetence right down the line" (as one principal puts it), the administrators are protected from dismissal by tenure agreements or ironclad contracts. How to get rid of inept administrators is one of his greatest problems, says Board President Hopp. "They are impossible to move," he explains. "You have to catch them committing rape on the steps of city hall...
...criminal penalties for marijuana possession. Speaking to a group heavy with former A.B.A. presidents, he suggested that his predecessors should be seen and heard from less. At a meeting of local and state bar presidents, he told his colleagues that they ought actively to encourage malpractice suits against inept lawyers...