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inefficiency

noun as in incompetence

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The law doesn’t define what that term means, though it is generally understood to be related to inefficiency, a neglect of duty or misconduct in office.

Excessive spending and inefficiency get rewarded with more federal dollars.

D’Souza speaks in the sweeping terms of a person convinced he can fix any problem—market forces and social change, inefficiencies and revolutions.

So, soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying.

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“The lack of coherent guidance and structure to pay the fee only compounded the inefficiency of our immigration courts,” Grenier said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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