Word: crude
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Massita, 61, takes a piece of old cloth from her battered white purse, unfolds it and gingerly lays out seven miniature knives. The crude blades are nicked, the wooden handles worn. An older woman sitting next to her leans over and taps the knives twice with the fingers of her right hand, then touches her forehead. This is to avoid eye problems after looking at the knives, she says...
...shares in that windfarm yet. So far, the attacks seem only to have helped make dirty old petroleum even cheaper. Benchmark crude has fallen from $27 to $19 since Sept. 10. With the U.S. shocked into recession mode - into which it seemed to be heading in any case - and airlines cutting back dramatically on their jet-fuel consumption, world oil demand has taken its steepest drop since the early 1980s. What's more, the oil producers still can't get their act together. This month, opec decided to cut back production by 1.5 million barrels a day - but only...
...Prime Number 10,000 sites around the world currently store nuclear waste that, in the wrong hands, could be made into crude, "dirty" radioactive bombs...
...rich tradition, started in the early 1980s, is all about. Basically, the show consists of a large-scale, two-hour roast of the physics Faculty, masterminded by second-year graduate students. The “puppet show” is actually a multi-media presentation, involving music, slides, video, crude animations and, of course, puppets, to create sketch comedy pieces involving prominent members of the physics Faculty. Before their roast, Faculty members join other graduate students to hobnob over beer and chips, and then file into Jefferson 250 to await their fate at the hands of their former and current...
...Eventually "The Name of the Game" becomes a multi-generational story as the rebellious daughter's sensitive poet husband turns into a new version of the venal Conrad. But long before that the book has degenerated into a crude lesson on the corruption of the bourgeoisie, the likes of which hasn't been seen since depression-era borscht-belt theater. The characters remain one-dimensional types (the boozy black-sheep brother; the frigid trophy wife; the stuffy matriarch) who come and go in one unbelievable, manipulative scene after another. The book gallops along furiously. Within one page Conrad's first...