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...type of crude banter that would lead many women to become disgusted and leave a fraternity party was the rule. References were continually made to sex and women as sexual objects, in an extreme I had not heard since high school...
Though not an excuse for this type of behavior in a work environment, most of the men were not crude enough to act this way in front of women. But that was not a problem, since there were so few women. Ninety percent of the time, none were within hearing distance. This absence was recognized by many of the traders, and while most did not seem to think about it one way or another, some would joke that it "enabled the men to concentrate." I for one could not see how any one woman could hope to work in that...
...trade deficit reached a record $11.43 billion in May. Export growth in merchandise and a $300 million decrease in auto imports were offset in part by crude oil imports, which rose to their highest level in more than four years. The deficit was more than $1 billion higher than some economists expected. SPORTS...
...they approached the area where O'Grady's signal beacon had been traced. The pilots saw bright yellow smoke coming from trees near a rocky pasture; O'Grady had set off a flare. The first Super Stallion, commanded by Major William Tarbutton, touched down, trying to avoid crude pine fence posts with barbed wire strung between them. Some 20 Marines scrambled out to set up a security perimeter...
...quality of the paintings, however, as much as their great antiquity, that makes them so surprising. The artwork in the Cosquer cave is nothing more than the crude outline of a human hand. The Chauvet cave drawings, made 30 centuries earlier, are exquisitely rendered likenesses that use the caverns' natural contours to heighten a sense of perspective. The contrast suggests that the art of early man did not mature steadily in any simple linear fashion. Says Patrice Baghain, a regional director of the French Culture Ministry: "It throws the entire notion of progressive artistic development into question...