Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only to end up merely making room for others to capture its business. Venezuela, on a high-octane drive to double production within a decade, was not about to cut back unless non-OPEC countries shared the pain.That insistence reflects reality: OPEC accounts for only 55% of total world crude-oil exports. In fact, the second largest exporter is nonmember Norway...
...those with a crude sense of humor, Jack's sells powders guaranteed to induce belching, farting and sneezing. In addition, one can buy "Chunky and Loose Puke," stink bombs, stink spray and a convincingly realistic "Dog Mess...
...oceanography as most scientists. But he started out as a surfer who kept on wondering why great waves were so hard to find. In the early '80s, while he and his buddies were roaming the sparsely populated beaches of the Baja Peninsula, Collins began spinning out his first crude forecasts, downloading satellite weather maps in the middle of the desert with the help of an antenna strung from a cactus, a short-wave radio and a portable fax machine. In 1985 he helped set up Surfline, a Huntington Beach, Calif., firm that distributes daily wave forecasts at a charge...
...stranger is in the mood to mate or in distress, is preparing to attack or about to retreat in fear. The chemicals that carry these odorless messages are called pheromones, and while most animals produce them, the highest animals--humans--were thought to be above such crude olfactory signals...
...Stan follows his dog to a sort of amusement park for homosexual pets. "Stan's dog's a homo!" is a typical line from that show. While the series is now created on a computer, Parker and Stone first used construction paper in their animation, which retains a flat, crude look with leaps into the fantastic. Altogether, the effect is Peanuts by way of Tim Burton...