People are woefully inept at knowing when to hit the brakes with food.
Which model would James Galbraith prefer: an inept government at low cost, or an inept government at enormous cost?
For centuries now the screw has held things together, and for almost as long it has been frustratingly inept at its central purpose.
Further, regulators continue to be inept at anticipating investor protection concerns.
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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.
His government has also proved to be inept at forming the sort of congressional alliances that are needed to get things done in Mexico's newly pluralistic system of politics.
The ITU itself was left looking dangerously archaic and inept at completing even the simplest tasks, with its public relations machinery spinning wildly and denying, with increased frequency as the facts failed them, that neither the conference nor the revised treaty had anything whatsoever to do with the Internet.
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Although he made dreadful mistakes in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, was devastatingly inept at handling the fight over whether the U.S. should join the League of Nations and allowed his Administration's wholesale assault on civil liberties both during and after the war, the vast majority of historians today consider Wilson a great or near-great President.
Catchphrase, the ITV game show that ran for 16 years from 1986 to 2002, was innovative in its use of computer graphics to represent maxims and sayings, but it probably sticks in the public consciousness as much for Roy Walker's handling of some of the inept efforts at answers.
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.
Taking over at the end of 1997 after the inept administration of Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, Chuan's government quickly moved to stabilize the economy and arrest the freefall of the Thai baht.
As the land of opportunity drifts to other locations through our neglect and inept immigration policies even our own best talent will be at risk.
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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.
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.
"You're seeing an inept management team being rewarded by the US government, " said William Smith at Smith Asset Management in New York.
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.
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