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Leading the way is the commanding presence of Burt Lancaster's inspired performance barking out his dialogue, but holding a truly genuine rapport with his mainly unprepared soldiers.
But in this movie he was wooden and seemed uncharacteristically and woefully unprepared.
Made in a tradition reminiscent of the best Cold War books and productions on nuclear war, an activist, a physicist, a politician and a geologist explain in rational and dispassionate terms the background to the energy crisis we face and, most alarmingly, highlight how totally unprepared we are to adjust to a world where oil is a scant resource, one we will all face in just a few years time.
Regardless of the true explanation, the US is singularly unprepared for jobless recoveries.
The fact that charities were unprepared for such questions indicated to Karnofsky and Hassenfeld that other donors and foundations give more or less blindly, without the information needed to make sound decisions about whom to support.
If the world’s center of gravity shifts to Asia, however, Americans will be woefully unprepared.
Or worsening conditions can be blamed on the government’s less-than-stellar negotiating strategy and the appearance that it is entering discussions with its EU partners unprepared.
So they seem to be completely unprepared for the crisis and thus at a loss as to what to do.
The DPJ, despite its manifesto, seems unprepared to tame the mandarins, and so may be forced to rely on them.
And this policy divergence suggests a second potential shock for which financial markets seem unprepared.
After years of destabilizing economic crisis, which has yet to be fully overcome, most European societies feel wholly unprepared – socially, economically, politically, and even psychologically – to receive the flood of refugees.
The problem is aggravated by the fact that the EU remains wholly unprepared for its "big bang" enlargement, even as it is set to begin.
If aging societies in the West and elsewhere (like Japan) fail to get immigration right, they will be woefully unprepared when they confront the real tidal wave: the retirement of baby boomers in the coming two decades.
But unless officials of all the countries involved, including the United States, admit that Afghanistan is dangerous and unprepared to absorb the Big Return, they cannot start taking steps to remedy the situation and guarantee that repatriations will be both safe and voluntary.
If the eurozone economy were to face a severe shock today, it would be unprepared.
During the interwar period (1919-1939), Americans were unprepared to assume that mantle; but World War II taught them the cost of isolationism, and they rose to the challenge in 1944.
Politicians representing these voters lack experience in government, sometimes are technically unprepared for governance, and are suspicious of technocrats and bureaucrats, particularly those in Brussels.
But if the West was understandably unprepared for a development that is unprecedented in world history, its own complacency also played a major role.
As a result, Russia is perpetually unprepared for the future.
Indeed, one of the more striking features of the tsunami disaster was that it caught some of the most glamorous vacation resorts completely unprepared.
Western democracies are unprepared to deal with this threat.
The reasons range from indifferent nutrition, socialization, and early-childhood learning to dysfunctional primary and secondary schools that leave too many Americans unprepared for college.
The police are at best useless and at worst outright employees of the drug lords; the army is less tainted, but unprepared for the role.
Yet Stalin’s purge of military leaders during the Great Terror critically weakened the Red Army, his signing of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in 1939 paved the way for the start of World War II, and his blindness to the Nazi threat in 1941 left the Soviet Union unprepared to resist Hitler’s attack.
Yoichi Funabashi, former Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, also is worried: “There’s a sense in Japan that we are unprepared to be a tough, competitive player in this global world.”
If it does, unfortunately, Trump’s under-staffed, over-militarized, and politically untouchable national-security apparatus will be frighteningly unprepared to meet the challenge.
Europeans are completely unprepared to defend themselves, owing to inertia, complacency, and lassitude.
It is by no means clear, for example, that Kim’s coddled youngest son, Kim Jong-un – now hailed as the “Great Successor,” but singularly unprepared to lead – will ultimately succeed his father in anything but name.
The asylum system is totally unprepared to deal with the new generation of refugees, who are ineligible under the existing framework, because they are fleeing not from specific acts of persecution, but from the disintegration of their states.
The trouble is, most urban areas are unprepared to manage the influx.
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