Word: crude
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never made it to No. 1, while plenty of junk did ascend to that pinnacle. As fun as it would be to go against the conventional, middlebrow wisdom and say The Beverly Hillbillies possessed a sly, Twain-like wit, recent viewings confirm that it was as crude as everyone has always said. The Happy Days-Laverne and Shirley era is another sorry one. So it could be argued on behalf of Seinfeld that it has combined quality and popularity in a way that is very impressive...
...crude question, one that requires weighing the value of one name against another. Yet it is also an honest one. No matter our class year, it's a blow to our egos when we see that Bill Clinton is speaking at Ball State, Bill Gates at Brandeis, Bill Cosby at Berkeley. We read the accounts of these speeches in The New York Times or see clips on CNN and ask, why not at Harvard? Given the extent to which we have been trained to expect only the best from Harvard--the most important professors, the biggest library system, the most...
...CRUDE OIL PRODUCTION 24 billion bbl. per year...
...made mistakes. No doubt his maneuvering between the Scylla of a totalitarian regime and the Charybdis of democratic ideas was far from irreproachable. No doubt he listened to and trusted the wrong people, no doubt his hearing and sight were dulled by the enormous pressure and he made many crude, irreversible mistakes. But maybe not. In a country accustomed to the ruler's answering for everything, even burned stew and spilled milk are held against the Czar and are never forgiven. Similarly, shamanism has always been a trait of the Russian national character: we cough and infect everyone around...
...CRUDE OIL PRODUCTION 150 million bbl. per year...