Word: ineptness
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...Margolin's uncut emotion and striking brunet beauty were displayed to their greatest effect in her debut film, David and Lisa (1962), a ground-breaking study of disturbed teenagers with Margolin opposite Keir Dullea. In an utterly different vein, she is also remembered as the long-suffering wife of inept criminal Woody Allen in Take the Money...
...gossamer scenario begins with the assumption that the inept and corrupt al-Jaafari government has discredited itself with the Iraqis. It certainly has no allies left in the Bush Administration. "Jaafari overplayed his hand," says an official, referring to the Prime Minister's overly friendly relations with Iran. There is a possibility that the current ruling alliance of religious Shi'ite parties will split apart. There is the probability that the Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani-the most respected religious figure in the country-will not endorse the Shi'ite slate, as he did last time, even if it holds...
...African-American players, isolated and marked as Packers, once likened the town to a prison. After a series of Cowboy-like incidents in the mid-'80s, a Wisconsin legislator proposed that a penitentiary be built in Green Bay "so the players can walk to work." The Packers looked so inept on the field that there were doubts the team that won the first two Super Bowls would ever make it back. There were even suggestions that the team should move...
...many others who see it as a thinly veiled attempt to equate homosexuality with sexual abuse by priests. Homosexuality does not predispose a person to commit a crime against a child. The Catholic Church is trying to divert attention from fundamental institutional problems and from its inept handling and cover-up of sexual abuse by priests in the U.S. Reaffirming a ban on gays entering the priesthood would drive away some of the very few men willing to serve the church and live celibate lives. It is clear that the church is in desperate need of a housecleaning...
...natural calamity. Big Government must organize access to medical care for all individuals. But Big Government has been under constant attack for decades. Most people see it as the cause of Americans' woes rather than as part of the solution. Big Government is not the enemy; Bad Government is--inept, shortsighted and self-serving...