Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exports are now among the fastest-growing items in the U.S. economy, they are still running well behind imports, resulting in a gargantuan and growing trade deficit. That, however, comes about in part because the country must import such huge quantities of raw products, from coffee and bananas to crude oil, that it either cannot produce at all or not in the quantities it needs. The great fear of a few years ago was that foreign rivals would also take over manufacturing businesses, particularly high-tech firms, and reduce the U.S. work force to hamburger flipping. That fear is pretty...
...threats from Baghdad rose and fell apparentlytoo quickly to have much of an effect on gas at the pump, eventhough crude oilprices climbed slightly higher. Indeed, gasoline prices in the U.S. continue tocome down from their summer highs, according to a nationwide survey. During thepast two weeks, the average price of gas fell a penny, to about $1.21 a gallon.With world oil reserves plentiful -- and barring a major conflagration in thePersian Gulf -- analysts don't expect U.S. consumers to experience pump shockany time soon...
...same story. After imposing their own salary cap, the owners signed a series of dubious incentive-laden contracts with players, crude ploys to avoid...
...First the issue of whether 'Beavis and Butthead' are merely crude or have some redeeming multi-level humor was discussed," Ussem said. "Then the impact of the media on society was debated...
...While onlookers sipped rum, 3,000 demonstrators screamed slogans into the microphones of foreign television crews and painted voodoo hexes on the crosswalk to hobble U.S. invaders when they arrive. As an expression of the diplomacy-of-defiance that constitutes Haiti's foreign policy, it provided a crude but telling glimpse of what Lieut. General Raoul Cedras thinks of Clinton's threats to topple him and his henchmen...