Word: crude
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crude, ungrammatical, typewritten letter listed twelve people allegedly wronged by School Pictures, Inc., a minor holding in Hearin's diversified empire. The company develops and prints class photos, employing contractors to handle payments between the photographers and the main office...
...predilection for slow tempos is very much in evidence, yet occasionally he bolts precipitately, as in the final scene of Siegfried, when it is all that Polaski and Jerusalem can do to keep up. There is some piquant orchestral detail at times, but at others the texture is crude. Barenboim's challenge is to find a convincing, unified point of view...
...force remains the most backward Soviet service. When a Soviet defector flew a MiG-25 fighter to Japan in 1976, Western experts judged the craft to be little more than a crude weapons platform -- underpowered, poorly built and laced with dangerously primitive electrical wiring. Soviet jet engines still burn out early and guzzle more fuel than comparable U.S. power plants. The Soviets continue to fly 1950s-era propeller-driven Bear-H reconnaissance bombers on patrols off Alaska and the U.S.'s Eastern Seaboard. New jet fighters like the MiG-29, a downsized version of the 14-year...
...Peace could eliminate the glut, the theory goes, by bringing back tighter production quotas from Iran, Iraq and the other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Such thinking caused the price of oil futures to seesaw violently last week. The price of a barrel of West Texas crude jumped 84 cents, to $15.70, when Iran first proposed peace, then plunged 47 cents per bbl. the next day, after Iraqi fighters bombed Iranian targets...
...handful of industry analysts maintain that a cease-fire will make little difference in prices. World demand for crude is flat, they argue, and OPEC, which controls only 37% of the market, in contrast to 56% in 1973, may find it difficult to push prices much higher. "If the war ends, the geopolitics of oil are changed greatly," says Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Cambridge, Mass. "But the price may not be changed nearly as much." The possibility of peace in the Persian Gulf seems to have left the petroleum community as bewildered as the rest...