Word: ineptness
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...face of this, Pakistan's government proved shockingly inept and many of its people cruelly callous. Four days after the cyclone hit, East Pakistan's governor, Vice Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan, was still downplaying the catastrophe, saying that "only" 16,000 had been killed. Though people were still reported floating alive offshore three days after the cyclone, the Pakistani navy was never ordered to search for survivors. Some 500,000 tons of grain were stockpiled in East Pakistan warehouses, but the 40-odd Pakistani army helicopters that could have airlifted them to the delta sat on their pads...
...that the elections are over, we are sure that each of the Princeton supporters of successful candidates will celebrate his success with an appropriate victory celebration. (Play "Some Enchanted Eyening.") (Two guns, and pray that Mrs. Inept doesn't understand a word...
...right to expect either gothica, like Sun set Boulevard, or antic farce, such as Some Like It Hot. Instead, we are presented with what future critics will call "Some Like It Tepid," a listless ac count of ourselves v. the Kaiser's agents. Moreover, it portrays me as inept. A lady twists me 'round her finger." "Mmmmm...
...split the party when he lured rejected Supreme Court Nominee G. Harrold Carswell into a Republican primary for the Senate, whereas Democrats are displaying uncommon unity behind Reubin Askew, a teetotaling Presbyterian elder whose favorite "hobby," he says, is going to church. Askew accuses Kirk of "government by crisis," inept fiscal management and a 45% increase in property taxes. Kirk's counterthrusts are characteristic: Askew is an ultra liberal and a "Goody Two-shoes powder puff." The race is considered close, win a third. Democrat Dale Bumpers, a Sunday-school teacher and political neophyte who polished off former...
...celebrated troubles with broken equipment, overloaded circuits, inept operators and backlogged demands for service, American Telephone & Telegraph has retained the admiration of most businessman for its managerial skill. Now the flaws in performance are prompting the Bell System's critics to question management's ability to plan ahead. Last week Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, one of A.T. & T.'s most outspoken detractors, charged that, instead of finding innovative ways to increase telephone usage and company revenues, A.T. & T.'s managers have adopted policies that "simultaneously produce higher prices and worse service for the public...