Word: ineptness
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...total deaths from disasters, according to the United Nations. But unlike many other catastrophes, most water crises are man-made. Nature may bring the occasional monsoon downpour or dry spell, but environmentalists agree that global warming, dams, deforestation and slash-and-burn farming exponentially exacerbate these seasonal weather patterns. Inept and corrupt water management also contributes to the problem, allowing plentiful water to run off to the seas or leaving it to lie in floods on the land, while a few hours away, crops wither in parched fields. South Asia's water woes are hardly unique. China faces simultaneous floods...
...that would eliminate his job as proconsul years ahead of schedule. (The last American in a comparable position, Douglas MacArthur, ran Japan for six years.) The White House, and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and her deputy, Robert Blackwill, in particular, took over the Iraqi political portfolio from an inept Pentagon and told Bremer to find a way to form an Iraqi government that could assume power from the CPA by July 2004. Bremer devised a complex caucus system intended to ensure that the rights of the minority Sunnis and Kurds would be protected. But the plan was never accepted...
...turn the onetime water utility into a glitzy worldwide media giant and ended up driving it to the brink of bankruptcy. But after Messier was held in jail for 36 hours recently by magistrates who opened a formal criminal investigation against him, the big question is no longer how inept he's been. It's whether he was solely responsible for Vivendi's near downfall or is just taking the fall for the failings of the French business establishment. After 20 months of investigation, the two magistrates on the case, Henri Pons and René Cros, are focusing on three...
...Such are the squabbles that have given Nepal 14 governments in as many years. Indeed, some suspect the true purpose of Gyanendra's move may be to vindicate himself by reminding his people of just how inept their politicians are. Nonetheless, after 20 months of deadlock between the King and Nepal's political parties, many feel that any change is welcome. "At last, something has moved," sighs one South Asian diplomat. And not a moment too soon: Maoist leaders say they are preparing for a "nationwide attack" against the government in the near future. Deuba must make peace with...
...Walden O’Dell, and other members of the company’s board are significant Bush benefactors, their intentions of opposing a ballot receipts remained appropriately suspect to many of the proposal’s proponents. As long as the company’s software security remains inept at guaranteeing a fair and clean election, electronic voting without paper evidence leaves Diebold’s intentions dubious. To ensure that voter confidence is at its utmost, and to make certain that we don’t fall prey to mistakes made in the 2000 election, we must make...