In Uganda, for example, it took two years for MTN, a private mobile-phone firm, to outstrip UTL, the clumsy state-owned telecoms firm.
Free markets didn't make mistakes – only clumsy bureaucratic states made economic mistakes.
But his law made the state clumsy and half-blind.
Political reform is way overdue in the ever-profligate, increasingly authoritarian Gulf states — especially in Saudi Arabia, where the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has converted an unpleasant, arch-conservative kingdom into a clumsy but nasty surveillance state.
The result was a victory for neither side: the protest movement risks seeming more radical and left-wing, sapping it of middle-class support, but the state looks clumsy and afraid, its celebration for Mr Putin tarnished by armoured vehicles in the streets.Mr Putin seems unmoved by continued public dissatisfaction with his rule.
As Palmer reminded the nation on Twitter of political victories such as using his Senate bloc (now a party of one) to help block government plans for pricier university degrees, or to hector former charge Jacqui Lambie over her clumsy syntax, local and state politicians were forming crisis plans to help avert the refinery's demise.
There is an obvious temptation, while we wait for Moyet to get her hair done, to use this knackered room as some clumsy metaphor for the state of her career: the huge star, whose extraordinary, foundation-shaking blues voice gave her top 10 hits first with Yazoo in 1982 and then as a solo artist, is now aged 40.
Nina Oding, an economist at the city's Leontief Centre, criticised "clumsy efforts by the state somehow to regulate price formation".
Business leaders understand the importance and power of providing an experience to customers--not purely a clumsy transaction (the current state of many customer service operations).
I already felt sheepish and clumsy in my wounded state, which was exacerbated when a group of people mocked me in the elevator, assuming I didn't understand the language they were speaking.
