On the other hand, a corrupt or inept consultant can cost a pension billions.
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And it is, it is just gloriously inept chaos that is beautifully captured on film.
If overpaying hugely for a rival does not count as inept, then what does?
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Jackson was soft-spoken, shy, socially inept -- everything the fast-talking and personable Clinton was not.
The most costly plants would be closed, inept managers pushed aside, price-cutting stopped, and so on.
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Mr Wolfe, like other left-wing liberals, finds the contrast historically inept and conceptually confused.
Santiago said grandparents today take on the child-rearing role because many mothers are inept.
The crisis shows it is only as good as its underwriters, and they have proved inept.
Still others maintained that the problem was peculiarly Norwegian, a combination of inept policing and misguided pacifism.
However inept Hatoyama's performance as prime minister, many observers say his administration was needlessly undercut by Washington.
Certainly Lord Ashdown and his predecessors have increasingly often sacked inept or corrupt officials, indeed elected politicians.
The federal government is revealed as inept in two areas of greatest concern to voters: work and home.
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Perhaps to pre-empt criticisms of inept oversight, a string of regulators has nonetheless announced investigations into the trade.
In effect he is saying that he prefers to be thought of as colossally inept rather than crooked.
People are woefully inept at knowing when to hit the brakes with food.
Mr Vaz called the tactic of stealing identities "shocking, distressing" and "slightly inept", when identities could instead be manufactured.
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Which model would James Galbraith prefer: an inept government at low cost, or an inept government at enormous cost?
When your correspondent moved here, he wore ties and was a musical inept.
Yet here I am, able to design a website, but completely inept when it comes to installing a lighting fixture.
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Indeed, the overwhelming evidence indicates that they are just as inept as other active managers when trading their bond portfolios.
The episode provided an ignominious denouement to a disastrous French campaign, marred by infighting and inept displays on the field.
Ingenuity is too compact, powerful and portable to be defeated by inept public policy that's implemented only here or there.
No doubt HR is under orders, while screening job applicants for the claims department, to seek out the most inept.
Installing inept Australian book-keepers in executive positions hardly helped nor did the timid local executives who were afraid to say boo.
To illustrate a point, accept that Republicans are equally inept, waste as much and are just as scandal prone as Democrats.
Customers applaud good recovery from problems, but punish airlines in surveys for a lack of information or inept handling of problems.
But this week, the company flunked crisis PR 101 and spawned a social-media firestorm with its inept handling of the issue.
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Usually, the individuals who prognosticate the end of the CMO are those who seek to generate business by declaring CMOs inept.
"You're seeing an inept management team being rewarded by the US government, " said William Smith at Smith Asset Management in New York.
That's what made Monday night's inept NCAA men's basketball championship so fascinating.
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