On the other hand, a corrupt or inept consultant can cost a pension billions.
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Thanks to a largely inept campaign, Ms Merkel saw a lead that had at one time touched 20 percentage points whittled away to less than a point by polling day.
Perhaps to pre-empt criticisms of inept oversight, a string of regulators has nonetheless announced investigations into the trade.
Yet here I am, able to design a website, but completely inept when it comes to installing a lighting fixture.
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When your correspondent moved here, he wore ties and was a musical inept.
Still others maintained that the problem was peculiarly Norwegian, a combination of inept policing and misguided pacifism.
Mr Tang, however, turned out to be a candidate so inept that it was hard to imagine where the committee was getting its advice.
He spoke of a bureaucracy so inept that his case manager could not find him for several weeks, although he was sitting in the outpatient room where he had been sent.
When Olof Mellberg headed in his second goal after halftime to put Sweden in front, England was at the bottom of Group D, headed for elimination and looked every inch a cast of inept bunglers.
But so inept was Hassoun, he bought a backpack, walkie-talkies and some batteries agents asked him to buy and the FBI then incorporated it into the dud bomb fashioned at its lab in Quantico, Va.
Let me explain: Hewlett-Packard, which has been in big trouble since Carla Fiorina stepped in as CEO in July 1999, and by February 2005, was forced out, has been a revolving door for inept or ill-starred CEOs.
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The fact that the campaigns expect us to buy that these highly accomplished men are somehow each eminently qualified to hold the most important job in America while completely inept when it comes to handling a debate is sheer nonsense and demeaning to both the candidates and the public they seek to persuade.
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Customers applaud good recovery from problems, but punish airlines in surveys for a lack of information or inept handling of problems.
In late 2007, with Hollywood on the verge of a writers' strike, Whedon decided to step outside the studio system and produce a Web series about an inept villain.
If overpaying hugely for a rival does not count as inept, then what does?
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Or worse, caesareans were commonly implemented by inexperienced and inept doctors when panic and the fear of a malpractice lawsuit set in.
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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To illustrate a point, accept that Republicans are equally inept, waste as much and are just as scandal prone as Democrats.
But the court upheld a requirement for commercial interior design, holding that the state had a rational basis for protecting the public from inept design, which could create safety hazards.
The episode provided an ignominious denouement to a disastrous French campaign, marred by infighting and inept displays on the field.
Koumas could have saved his side's blushes instead his weak 66th minute penalty was palmed out by Agaev and the Azeri 'keeper ensured his place as a national hero as he saved Koumas' equally inept rebound.
In 1996 some of its shares were bought by the Lens Fund, which specialises in companies with inept boards, and invests in only six or so firms at a time, so that it can keep a close eye on what goes on.
In New York we get a mayor who makes war on Big Gulp sodas while proving himself inept at basic government functions such as clearing snow.
The filmmakers were so inept in their portrayal of any kind of recognizable reality that their creations became a form of grubby science fiction, documentaries about an alternative planet.
Last September when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amazingly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so roundly denounced as a step backward and a weakening of the iPhone environment that chief executive Tim Cook had to release a public apology.
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Denning pointed out you could be seen as socially inept of you tried to use the wrong context: if you were out on a date with someone new and gave orders on when they should do something, or set a price that you paid your date at the end of the night.
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Sometimes it might make more sense , even given our inept political parties, to look at opportunities closer to home, where constitutional protections, a large domestic market and a diversified economy may provide better long-run prospects.
Labour said the Tories' policy was widely regarded across Europe as "inept and wrong-headed" while the Lib Dems said the "unseemly row" was a sign of things to come if the Conservatives win the next election.
Nonetheless, as perhaps the most important politician of her generation, one whose imprint will be felt on Indian lives for many years to come, she deserves a disproportionate share of the blame from those who feel her well-meaning but inept government has jeopardized India's future.
In front of a sparse crowd of 12, 532 in a 42, 000-capacity stadium, the Lions struggled for long periods during an inept first-half display.
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