Word: crudely
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...return to the illiteracy of Evans' speech. "China," he said, "is moving far too slowly in its transition to an open, market-based economy." Hello? In the past 20 years China has surely moved more people--both in crude terms and as measured as a share of global population--from a premarket economy to a market-based one further and faster than any other society has done since the dawn of time. This, like all economic transformations, has come at a wrenching human cost. In China's case, that cost is measured in the loss of millions of protected jobs...
...even regional instability in order "to uphold national unity and territorial integrity." Like all Taiwanese, Wong has heard similar strident threats from China before. This time, however, he blames his own President, Chen Shui-bian, for deliberately baiting Beijing by stirring the pot of independence at home in a crude attempt to boost his re-election chances next March. "I suspect all he cares about is staying in power," says Wong, who until recently counted himself among Chen's supporters...
...anonymously, often under such flags of convenience as the Animal Liberation Front, the Animal Rights Militia or the Justice Department. Colin Blakemore, a professor of physiology at the University of Oxford whose medical research has relied on animal tests, was among several scientists threatened with assassination several years ago. Crude devices intended to injure have been sent to his home and office. The violence of a tiny fraction of animal-rights campaigners has stirred alarm even among fellow activists, who say it diverts attention from the real debate...
...responsible for the company's sustainable development efforts. They include ensuring Total is working with local communities around the world and developing new sources of energy, including wind. Gires is especially proud of a recent $4 billion project in Venezuela that produces and refines extra-heavy crude from the Orinoco basin that a decade ago would have been left in the ground. As part of its efforts to support people living in the area, Total not only built schools, medical facilities and roads but also employed experts to study public health issues there. After discovering that many local diseases were...
...Meier: Yes, no matter how indelicate its prosecution or how crude it appears abroad, they see the move against Khodorkovsky as a necessary corrective. The Putin line is, "We have no choice." As I explain in my book, Putin believes in the state above all. The state must survive. But the fact that he felt so threatened by Khodorkovsky that he felt forced to act in this way reveals his political weakness. Still, he knows that the West will remain engaged with Russia, because he understands the premium on non-Arab sources...