Word: unfitting
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...princesses" because most were recruited to run for parliament by Ichiro Ozawa, the DPJ's 67-year-old secretary general and chief election strategist. By running a slate of female neophytes - many of them unknowns and outsiders - Ozawa drew fire from some pundits who accused him of offering up unfit candidates to capitalize on voters' increasing concern over Japan's worsening economic plight and their frustration with an ineffective political establishment. (See pictures of young Japanese women...
...pattern of career choices began to change. Until then, even though business ambitions and management degrees have not been disfavored in our competition, business careers attracted relatively few Rhodes Scholars, and it was the rare scholar who went to Wall Street or to finance. No one argued this an unfit or unworthy domain for Rhodes Scholars; it was simply on few scholars’ radar. And those who did make such a choice, including myself, usually did so after beginning a different career. Only three of the 320 American Rhodes Scholars in the ’70s went directly into...
After returning from combat duty in Iraq with an injured leg and eye, Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) is assigned to casualty notification duty to fill the three months left in his service. He is reluctant to take the assignment, thinking himself unfit to deliver such emotionally delicate news, especially while he is dealing with demons of his own. In the first few scenes, we discover that Montgomery has been recognized for war heroism, the reasons for which remain ambiguous until the movie’s end. We also find out that he’s maintained a close...
That's probably a smart choice, since a huge gap remains between the grass-roots activists who fervently want Palin to run for President and the party's elected officials, major fundraisers and strategists, many of whom think she is unready - or unfit - for the Oval Office. Many have noticed that Palin isn't acting like a candidate: after her clumsy exit from the governorship last summer, she declined to hire an experienced staff or manage her public profile deftly. All that, plus her tawdry public feud with ersatz son-in-law Levi Johnston, has most of the smart money...
...should Rush Limbaugh be deemed unfit to be an NFL owner because he's said things that some people deem racist? Sadly, the league's historical precedent does not exclude such behavior. As Sports Illustrated just pointed out, the former Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall was an open racist who kept the Redskins white, not to mention inept - now there's an accomplishment - until 1962, long after the owners grudgingly reintegrated the league in 1946. (See TIME's top 10 things to watch this NFL season...