Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Officers also exposed poor working conditions in the department's 29 Garden Street headquarters. Puddles gathered in the station dressing room, asbestos tiles buckled and cracked and the department's shower was, in the words of one officer, unfit for canine use. "It was a morale issue." says the officer...
Visual aids are important devices in journalism, but the ghastly photograph that accompanies your article on Rwanda goes too far. The horrors of bloodshed may be sufficiently communicated through writing, without employing photographs unfit for publication...
...more damaging than any shot Miller has fired is the assault against North by party elders. Most adamantly opposed is John Warner, who along with some other Senate Republicans would rather not have the mercurial North as a colleague. North is so unfit to serve in Congress, Warner says, that a "Republican white knight" should enter the race as an independent if North gets the nomination. Warner and his colleagues also elicited a letter from Reagan, for whom North lied to Congress and shredded key documents, attacking North's account of Iran-contra -- particularly North's published assertion...
Keegan shares the usual civilized revulsion at war: a richly knowledgeable antipathy in his case. His gaze is clear, steady and morally complicated. He has been drawn all his life to military culture and the subject of war. Complications from a teenage case of tuberculosis left him lame, unfit for military duty. But he went on to teach military history at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy, for many years -- a soldier's life by association, at an intellectual remove...
...staff members also called Dorot Professor of Archaeology of Israel Lawrence Stager, the museum's director, an unfit choice to chair the committee...