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...what happened then is something of a mystery even today. Part of the explanation may be that the studio system, which had been born 20 years or so earlier, had come of age; it had reached its maturity but was still full of zest. The bosses may have been crude and often tyrannical, but they loved their business, they knew what they were doing, and they had created huge organizations whose only purpose was to send new pictures to thousands of theaters, most of which, in the U.S., were owned by the studios themselves. At the same time, moviemaking...
...other cases, Stoll said, the hackers succeeded with "very simple, you might even say crude techniques," such as trying common passwords like "field," "guest" and "system...
...There is a relation of man's potential to the environment," said Wilson. "We need a more refined social science geared toward this matter of species diversity. Presently there are only crude ways of quantifying environmentalist concerns...
...built a headquarters for a foreign-owned petroleum group. For nearly a decade he moved around the Middle East and Europe, finally settling in London with his wife and three children. Along the way, he picked up a multimillion-dollar fee as a broker in a Saudi crude-oil deal. That was just the beginning of his good fortune...
Energy prices were up 4.9 percent last month, in part reflecting recent acceleration in crude oil prices. January's increase, the biggest since a 7.2 percent rise in January 1987, was paced by an 11.6 percent rise in home heating oil and also included a 4.1 percent jump in wholesale gasoline prices and a 4.8 percent rise in natural...