Word: crude
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...like China, whose exploding appetite for raw materials has boosted its total trade with Latin America from $8 billion in 1999 to more than $30 billion this year. That includes increased oil imports from Venezuela, which has caused Washington to fret about a long-term shortfall in its own crude imports from one of its nearest and most reliable suppliers...
...Best Equal-Opportunity Offenders Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson, who achieved the impossible -- lowering the moral tone of a Friars' roast -- when the Cheers star, in blackface, paid an epochally crude tribute to Whoopi. She later vexed the Anti-Defamation League with her published recipe for ''Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken...
...Spills The breakup of the tanker Braer near Britain's Shetland Islands did a lot less damage than one might expect from 26 million gal. of escaped crude oil. But after another major spill near the Strait of Malacca, off Sumatra, Britain's Transport Secretary concluded that the number of substandard tankers on the seas was an ''international disgrace.'' A Shell International Petroleum report claimed that 20% of the world's fleet was unfit for duty...
...blogs. Three days after the party, the story was on Meet the Press. Four days afterward, Lott made an official apology. After two weeks, Lott was out as Senate majority leader, and blogs had drawn their first blood. Web journalists like Matt Drudge (drudgereport.com) had already demonstrated a certain crude effectiveness--witness l'affaire Lewinsky--but this was something different: bloggers were offering reasoned, forceful arguments that carried weight with the powers that...
...making his own. Now in Lionel, dress codes have been relaxed, but Baruch Y. Shemtov ’09 still designs and produces his own line of high-fashion neckties. In 2003, Shemtov spotted a light blue bandanna in his bedroom and decided to sew it into a crude but striking skinny tie. A novice at sewing, he sealed his loose stitches with iron-on name-tags leftover from camp. “So it said BaruchShemtovBaruchShemtovBaruchShemtov all the way up and down the back of the ties,” he says with a smile. “Everyone...