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inefficiency

noun as in incompetence

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“The recent L.A. fires exposed difficult inefficiencies in our insurance system that unnecessarily delay the urgently needed financial support survivors are justly due,” Allen said in a statement.

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Who knew a place some consider to be one of the supreme symbols of American bureaucratic inefficiency could hold such wonder?

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Baseball’s analytics revolution has ushered in an age of cost-benefit analyses, sustainability studies and five-year plans, to the point where Dombrowski prioritizing the present over the future feels like a market inefficiency.

The region “embraces intentional inefficiency,” he explained, opting for smaller yields and working by hand.

And some economists warn that his promise to help companies that make deals with the US government raises the potential for corruption and market inefficiencies.

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

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