1. She had lost the fecklessness of youth and settled down.

2. On one side, the affair highlights the fecklessness of U.S. policy makers, who did nothing while an unreliable regime acquired a stranglehold on key materials.

3. The shift to public ownership also replaced the accountability of partnerships—when there are no profits, there are no partner bonuses—with the dangerous fecklessness of public boards.

4. Largely, it seemed, under the weight of its own fecklessness and.

5. Japanese voters are likely to support decisive moves, given their frustrations with the LDP's fecklessness.