Word: unfitness
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...sociologist Charles Moskos. The Air Force is the most civilianized (only 20% of its members fly planes) and feminized (26% of its new recruits are women) of the services, and its generals are notoriously sensitive lest their troops become indistinguishable from those of, say, a civilian corporation--and equally unfit to fight a real war. An Air Force colonel who served in the Persian Gulf and Somalia apprehensively contemplates the worst: "If each member is worrying about whether the officer next to him is getting special treatment because she is sleeping with the commander, you won't be prepared...
...maybe by your standards that means his speech was worthless. Well forgive me if I don't buy into your standards, but I thought Mel Gibson was generous to donate his time, and worth listening to if only because of his humor and joviality. If those things are unfit for this institution, then I don't want to be here. --Benjamin L. Berwick...
...with its payroll, aides are concerned about public uprisings. Their nightmare is that both events will happen simultaneously. Speaking to TIME, a Kremlin adviser described the scenario they sought to pre-empt by firing Lebed: unrest breaks out, Yeltsin's failing health disables him, and Lebed declares the President unfit to rule, calling on the military and security structures to help him "induce order" in the country. Nobody, however, except Interior Minister Kulikov seems to take seriously the tale of an imminent Lebed-led mutiny. "It was as good an excuse as any," said a senior government official. And Lebed...
...stock. They discounted his womanizing and his dissembling about the draft because they liked his energy and intelligence, and the fact that he wasn't George Bush. So far, at least, voters also seem to be discounting the insistence of his foes that Clinton's character renders him unfit to retain the presidency. If some of his own men begin to make that case, however, it's a whole new ball game...
This additional requirement rendered Bovet unfit for the post, both Wilson and Chamberlin said...