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An information systems audit has demonstrated that information systems in the corporation are inefficient and in need of immediate attention.

The mail service in this country is notoriously inefficient, it sometimes takes longer to send a letter to someone 50 miles away than to someone who lives at the other end of the country.

It is administratively inefficient to have two people running these programs when it could be done by one person working with a part-time assistant.

Poland's important agricultural sector continues to be handicapped by surplus labor, inefficient small farms, and lack of investment.

The mode of production in the factory is a little outdated and inefficient.

For upwards of a century the compound microscope, notwithstanding the advantages above mentioned, was a comparatively feeble and inefficient instrument, owing to the distance which the light had to traverse, and the consequent increase of the chromatic and spherical aberrations.

Thus, potash felspar, while it would[Pg 91] give abundance of potash, would be but an inefficient source of lime and magnesia; and labradorite, which contains abundance of lime, is altogether deficient in magnesia and potash.

It contains a considerable quantity of the phosphoric acid of the urine, but very[Pg 217] little of its ammonia; and as the principal value of urine depends on the latter, it is necessarily a very inefficient method of turning it to account.

The status of the office had steadily declined: instead of the great noblemen who, as we have seen, occupied similar posts under the Plantagenet Kings, and instead of the "Yeomen of the better class" spoken of by Lord Bacon, we find ale-house keepers and petty tradesmen, hardly less ignorant than the petty constables they were supposed to instruct, undertaking the office for the sake of profit, without any special aptitude, knowledge, or experience of their important duties, and without any serious intention of learning their work; for as no inducement or encouragement was held out to tempt or stimulate them to exertion, they were as inefficient when they relinquished their task as they were when they undertook it.

Unfortunately these watchmen were allowed to shirk their duties and were well known to be altogether inefficient, so much so, that when rowdy apprentices and other unruly assemblages gave trouble, as they too often did, no one thought of looking to such weak-kneed officials for the safety of the town.

[214] The Essex constabulary was also the first to undertake the supervision of Weights and Measures, thus saving the salaries previously paid to the old inspectors who were inefficient, and saving the pockets of labouring men who were the chief sufferers by short weight.

The play ends with the establishment of universal military training and equal suffrage, thus doing away with a militarism that was both timorous and tyrannical, snobbish and inefficient, and at the same time making the nation truly democratic.

If they fall a step short of his iron boundary they are mere Philistines and bourgeois, if they go a step beyond they are inefficient and contemptible sentimental revolutionists.

The interesting point to observe is that temperament and training have combined to give him on the one hand a hatred of this muddled, blind, and inefficient state of society in which we live, and on the other a distrust of the orderly, logical, and perfected civilization usually suggested as a possible substitute.

So by this elaborate and expensive system of examination, competitions, and promotions-which unfortunately is not so inefficient as its occasional mistakes might lead us to think-the university prevents those whom it deems to have the brightest minds from transmitting their mental endowments to posterity.

For in the dim red dawn of man the fool-killing apparatus of nature was terribly effective, and society could do little to mitigate its horrors and to protect its inefficient members.

We become steadily more exhausted and more inefficient, through too much study; and instead, we ought to become all the time more flourishing and more robust, if we studied in the proper way: and this is because we squander our psychic powers, instead of acquiring new energy.

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