Word: unpreparedness
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THROUGH the long, tense hours of the naval investigation into the capture of U.S.S. Pueblo, one conclusion has become dismally clear: the Navy was totally unprepared to protect Pueblo on a mission the hazards of which had been shrugged off at every level of command.
Why, then, did the uprising fail? The authors argue that France's workers, although in actual control of many plants, "failed to take the next logical step: to run the economy by themselves as free and equal partners." The reason: they were unprepared for the responsibility, "overwhelmed by the...
The third member of the team, Emile Zola Berman, was once described by an associate as a "marvelously warm person" who looks like "a living version of Ichabod Crane." Last week he spotted Mary Sirhan shyly working her way through the reporters in the courtroom. Berman bowed gracefully and kissed...
Powell accepted the conditions instantly but threatened to challenge the fine in court. He was not unprepared for the result. Claiming quarters in the marbled Rayburn House Office Building five days before the vote, he ordered them redecorated. Sounding quite like the old Adam, he said happily of his new...
Ultimate Sin. Tall and deliberate, Galamian, 65, sits there in his white wooden chair, taking everything in with stern, searching eyes. His Russian-accented speech is soft, and the softer it gets the more ominous it can be. When a student commits the ultimate sin-wasting Galamian's time...