"The Ebola epidemic in western Africa overwhelmed fragile health systems, killed thousands of people, and highlighted major inadequacies in our ability to respond to global public health emergencies," said Amy Gutmann, the commission chair.
The ABC is full of inadequacies, insider journalism and parochialism but the sheer range of its content across multiple platforms, reaching millions of Australians every day, is a key reason it must be defended against its opponents.
Related: Premier League fans' verdicts part 2: Manchester United to West Ham Falcao's decline has been so difficult on the eye that he is now attracting the one thing no footballer ever wants – pity – and there are people at Old Trafford who have started talking about his inadequacies in a way that reminds me of how Alvy Singer, Woody Allen's character, used to excuse Annie Hall's erratic parking.
If Tupac is hip-hop's Gandhi, the peeling Bob Marley poster on the wall of a generation of students, Biggie was the single greatest talent hip-hop ever produced: fat, slovenly, proud of eating sardines from a can, rapping about sexual inadequacies, and then – once he'd made it – about the fake adulation that came with wealth and power.
The filing goes far further than previous public reports in listing inadequacies in the ability of HSBC, the world's second-largest bank, to prevent criminal activity by its clients.
But set aside my manifold inadequacies as lover and human being for a moment.
In most cases, these images of the past reassure us of our own adolescent inadequacies, but in the past few days, the web has provided proof of Kanye, Eminem and King Krule's early abilities, with some brilliant clips of the artists cropping up on YouTube.
The subdiscipline now has a well stocked cabinet of horrors and curiosities, showing how people fail to exercise their choices in their own best interest.Having documented people's inadequacies, the behaviouralists now want to save them.
One way or another, things are beginning to look ominous for those who would exploit the inadequacies of America's patent system.
But one Pakistani firm has realised that, as in medieval times, the state's inadequacies can be a source of profit.
AMONG the supposed inadequacies of David Cameron's project to remodel the Conservative Party has been the absence of a "Clause Four moment".
