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Malone fills in for a charming bit as the girl-next-door who MacMurray's sidekick falls for (she should have been allowed to steal the movie from the inadequate Novak, as well).
Instead, the viewer gets ninety minutes of choppy, inadequate details that mostly go unexplained.
this painfully inadequate attempt of a movie is truly terrible.
How unfortunate to spend time on these sort of inadequate movies.
The Script was bad and inadequate, acting was terrible the actors must have picked up on a rush or they didn't have enough budget for good ones.
Is it possible that there is a correlation between the increased "awareness" of the media on the sensitive issue of sexism which their policy makers seem to believe can be dealt with by ruthlessly crushing any reference to the female sex in a comedy programme that is not totally adulatory,and the increased amount of disrespect and violence shown towards women in society in 2006?When Reg Varney made some outrageous remark to a large-bosomed bus conductress was he perhaps exorcising vicariously some deep need in the male members of his audience to do exactly the same thing themselves?Robbed by the self-appointed arbiters of public good of the opportunity of such relief,the nagged,the hen-pecked or the simply inadequate become more and more frustrated, sometimes with tragic results.
I hope the real story hasn't been tarnished because of an inadequate portrayal of it in a TV movie.
The script aids the actors in being inadequate as half the time it just makes no sense and other times begins to show promise and ends abruptly.
But while official attention to rural poverty is music to the ears of the poor, experience shows that such promises are usually inadequate.
Recent turmoil in Asian markets raises difficult questions about currency pegs, asset bubbles, inadequate banking supervision, and the lack of financial information which cannot be ignored.
Turkey, which is covered by NATO’s nuclear umbrella, views international efforts to promote nuclear non-proliferation as woefully inadequate.
Moreover, the world is awash in liquidity right now, and even where a government’s own money is inadequate, it is often possible to establish public-private partnerships to build genuinely high-return projects.
Massive migration to urban areas, high unemployment, low incomes, poor housing and sanitation, inadequate infrastructure, and social deprivation are shared symptoms of economic hubs where population growth has not been reconciled with cohesive approaches to public-health policy.
But the debate about which policies could boost demand remains inadequate, evasive, and confused.
If the core problem is inadequate global demand, only monetary or fiscal policy can solve it.
These impasses have fueled growing fear that we are “out of ammunition” to fight inadequate growth and potential deflation.
But if our problem is inadequate nominal demand, there is one policy that will always work.
But, again, a broader investor pool is likely to reduce the average number of investments per investor, with inadequate diversification leading to many more losers than winners.
But the EU’s problem with both Turkey and Russia is about more than difficult personalities or inadequate policies; it is rooted in the European order itself.
The best evidence for continuing confidence in the integrity of US securities markets comes from foreign investors, who would be among the first to flee if they feared rampant corporate fraud and inadequate regulation.
Meanwhile, excessive income concentration at the top – a situation that inadequate technological diffusion may exacerbate – contributes to excess savings.
Any strategy to address the problems underpinning low productivity growth – from inadequate technological diffusion to income inequality – must address skill constraints and mismatches affecting the labor market’s ability to adjust.
Given that affluent households spend a smaller share of their incomes and wealth, greater inequality translates into lower overall consumption, thereby hindering the recovery of economies already burdened by inadequate aggregate demand.
Admittedly, the country’s economic performance after the oil shock of the early 1970s was poor, marked by slow growth, high inflation and unemployment, huge fiscal deficits, increasing debt, a declining currency, and inadequate infrastructure.
There was no counter-balancing move to increase demand by publicly funding infrastructure investment; domestic reforms were inadequate; and the creditors offered no substantial debt restructuring or debt forgiveness.
Even countries facing significant obstacles – such as India, with a population of 1.2 billion people, rampant poverty, and inadequate infrastructure – have rid themselves of polio.
Moreover, taking the first step starts the clock on others' trust and confidence that the next steps will in fact be taken, or else risks creating the false impression that the failure to achieve a particular goal reflects mistaken (or irrelevant) intentions, not inadequate execution.
But, while this is good news for some, it is inadequate to arrest the rising inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity – or to unleash the inclusive prosperity that Western economies can and should be generating.
But, though structural factors and debt overhangs underpin today’s inadequate demand, a purely macroeconomic response might still solve the problem.
Despite higher government spending on educational infrastructure, inadequate coordination and poor transport mean that a significant share of promised resources fails to reach schools in time for the start of the academic year (or, in some cases, at all).
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