The political parties ruled Nepal corruptly and incompetently for 14 years before King Gyanendra's coup.

ECONOMIST: Everyone against the king

In addition, drugs have lasting physical effects and some, taken incompetently, can kill.

ECONOMIST: Time for a puff of sanity

Some will encounter regulatory troubles, some will be marketed incompetently, some will expire due to the outcome of critical lawsuits.

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Voters are left with the impression not just that the government has been cheating their children, but that it has been doing so incompetently.

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They treated parliament with equal disdain, and managed the economy incompetently.

ECONOMIST: Parliamentary puppetry | The

Either Schering deliberately delayed a result it suspected would be bad or Hassan's team incompetently failed to realize that they were sitting on a time bomb.

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When the ex-communists who had incompetently governed the country since 1989 were replaced in late 1996, Romanians hoped the new lot would bring reform and prosperity.

ECONOMIST: Romania

And if that were not bad enough, they copied it incompetently, failing to charge the full price of power, or to set up an orderly regulatory structure, or to develop capital markets to fund new investment.

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