Was Rupert Murdoch so skilled at a kind of uber-power game that he was attempting to vaporise each inappropriate inquiry into his company; or were we watching a shell-shocked man so incapable of basic discourse that it almost elicited a strange kind of pity?
One possibility, outsiders suggest, is that Purdue limited the scope of its inquiry to Taleyarkhan's alleged inappropriate research behavior and did not extend it to the scientific controversy surrounding bubble fusion.
The Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee will now lead a member's debate on its sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct inquiry.
He finally settled on an answer that, I would later discover, is an old favorite in shutting down inappropriate lines of inquiry.
Mark Emmert, the N.C.A.A.'s president, called the conduct of the investigators "shocking" and "stunning," saying the organization could not tolerate such "grossly inappropriate" behavior in its inquiries.
If the corporate veil were to be pierced that would presumably end the inquiry, an inappropriate result on this record.
One notable exception is the field of hedonic damages where the first circuit has declared that the Foret/ Daubert inquiry is inappropriate for determining admissibility of such testimony.
On behalf of these other athletes, we are required to question whether Semenya's and Pistorius's participation is fair, and cannot, as some South African officials and commentators would apparently like to do, simply dismiss the inquiry as inappropriate.
However, the watchdog said it would be "inappropriate" to open an inquiry because the prince's representatives had not yet made a formal complaint.
In January, Fonda told Variety she felt Kelly's poorly timed inquiry was "inappropriate," and showed "she's not that good an interviewer".
