Word: ineptness
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...while her campaign left behind a trail of bounced checks and unpaid vendors. Most people blamed the confusion on Joe. For a man reputed to have a fortune tucked away back East, he was weirdly inept with money. During the campaign it emerged that he had written $60,000 in bad checks to a Salt Lake City luxury-gift store. A mix-up, said Joe. His account in Pennsylvania hadn't been transferred to Utah in time. "There were always explanations,'' says Peter Valcarce, manager of Enid's unsuccessful 1992 campaign and a consultant in 1994, who was paid with...
...content with throwing in the odd gratuitous buttock scene or some flamingly inept symbolism, Joffe and Stewart decide to addend several new themes to give more scope to their crassness...
...deficiencies began to tell when Milosevic, looking for a negotiated solution, withheld his political and material support from the Bosnian Serbs. Military stalemate, debilitating for any army, took a toll as well: in recent months reports of war weariness, low morale and lax discipline cropped up with increasing frequency. Inept officers were drinking when they should have been training their troops, a Serb militia leader told a New York Times reporter last week; the soldiers, he said, were "too stupid to stop an attack by Boy Scouts." Stupid or shrewd, many also saw little point in fighting for territory that...
...Hawks, who were a prime cut above the inept first five opponents on Harvard's schedule, scored early and clogged the middle part of the field. Harvard, which had been used to beating defenders at will, could not break through Monmouth, as the players either took outsider shots or muffed the two or three solid scoring chances they managed to create...
...Senate ethics investigation of alleged sexual misbehavior by the Senator from Oregon has gone on for 32 months, far longer than anyone expected. For much of that time, many Senators seemed willing to write off the accusations against Packwood as harmless ardor on his part or inept passes that were permissible under unstated standards by the Senate of a bygone era. Now suddenly the mood has changed. Though the Ethics Committee's recommendations are at least a month away, there is growing consensus that the penalty will be and must be harsh. The charge that tipped the balance was that...