Carl Icahn famously and ineffectively did this in 2008 after the botching of the Microsoft offer.

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This in turn is part of a bigger question: why has Iraq fought the war so ineffectively?

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It also means that many entrepreneurs are looking for innovation in the wrong places and pursuing new product design ineffectively.

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Bound by cultural sensitivities, the default reaction of the bureaucracy is to review the procedures and wring its hands ineffectively.

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Here, contrary to the complainants, the problem is not that Yale investigates and prosecutes allegations ineffectively but that it does so at all.

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