Word: crude
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There were no safe havens: Energy shares declined 7% as the price of crude slipped. Financials were weak, natch, with Citigroup, the day's most active stock, losing 30 cents to close at $1.20. General Electric, which slashed its dividend last week, lost another 92 cents to close at 7.50. Even safer stocks, like drug maker Pfizer, took a beating, losing 5.3% to close...
...world might be sinking into its worst recession in generations, but China is on a wild shopping spree. Sitting some $2 trillion of cash reserves, Beijing is taking advantage of the woes of others to cement its grip on new sources of commodities ranging from olive oil to crude oil -often at fire-sale prices...
...can’t be used to balance off an imagined moral ledger sheet or to cancel out privileges we feel bad about. Instead, we should try to avoid accumulating too much vulgar privilege in the first place—a quantity that isn’t measured in crude indexes like money or education or employment, but in the degree to which our social behavior trends either toward humility or toward hierarchism...
...wild chimpanzees the docile, childlike creatures portrayed on TV. Highly territorial, chimpanzees will attack and kill other chimps. Though mostly vegetarian, they will also hunt and kill other animals for food; young male chimpanzees in Africa have been known to fashion crude weapons and use them to hunt bushbabies for meat. Attacks on human beings are rare, but they do happen - and the results are often catastrophic. The former NASCAR driver St. James Davis, who raised a chimpanzee as a pet, was attacked by escaped chimps at an animal sanctuary in 2005; he was left with injuries and disfigurement...
...with the most clichéd and common problems—“He’s Just Not That Into You” is surprisingly smart, touching, funny, and real. There are moments of genuine laugh-out-loud hilarity, and the film achieves it without resorting to crude jokes about sex or sexism. Even better, it resists the urge to end all of the subplots in happiness. Some of the characters change; some do not. Some relationships end predictably; the others take you so much by surprise that you may find yourself a little teary. Most...