Word: crudely
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...windowsill of his Beijing office, affixed with labels such as "Saudi sweet." As senior vice president of China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), Yang is responsible for the state-owned company's efforts to secure oil and gas supplies all over the globe. The samples of crude are souvenirs that testify how far he must roam in his search. "I'd like it if there was oil under Paris," he says, "but I spend my time in less comfortable places...
...course, there are numerous other factors driving the price of crude, among them supply hiccups caused by chaos in Iraq, political and economic turmoil in oil-producing nations such as Nigeria and Russia, hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and fears of terrorism. "It is neither fair nor accurate to blame China for most of the rise in oil prices," says Jeffrey Logan of the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA). But with oil in short supply?currently, producers are pumping just 1 million barrels more than the 81 million barrels being consumed worldwide every day?growing demand from China...
...stereotypes rather than examining the actual literature on human mating…So on the whole I found the so-called ‘theory’ a rather dumb oversimplification of what we know about mating, and the language and tone of the site immature and crude.” Psychology concentrator Maura E. Boyce ’05 agrees. “My initial impression of it was that it was a lame interpertation of the evolutionary attraction that men and women have for each other...
...enforcement officials tell TIME they are continuing to follow the case closely and are learning even more disturbing details about what the group may have been plotting. Reports on the British investigation, now circulating among U.S. law-enforcement agencies, assert that the group was trying to construct a crude radiological dirty bomb. The arrests (which followed a yearlong surveillance operation, code-named Operation Spangle) turned up a cache of household smoke detectors, which the British suspect the group wanted to cannibalize for their minute quantities of americium-241, a man-made radioactive chemical. Officials tell TIME it's extremely unlikely...
...combined with its quiet acquiescence to the U.S. government’s shameful tactics—is an embarrassment. The University’s conspicuous absence from FAIR—particularly when so many HLS faculty members have signed on in support—implies that a crude political judgment has taken precedence over standing up for principle. Harvard’s prestige and financial resources could make a significant impact on this case. By not pursuing litigation when there is so little at stake, the University has sent a message that the principle of nondiscrimination is somehow not worthy...