Word: crudely
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When planners recommended relocating the museums, Cuno says, they based their idea on a crude comparison of the total square footage the museums occupy in Harvard Square with the amount of space in Allston that could be set aside for the arts...
...MANNERS--AND, BY THE WAY, ARE THEY GETTING ANY BETTER? A lack of obsequiousness. A Hey-I'm-just-as-good-as-you quality. That's the basic idea. I've been attacking American manners for 25 years, and I succeeded too well. Americans concluded that we're naturally crude. The truth is that America invented the idea of etiquette as equality. That principle has been a major influence in the world. Particularly in countries that want to be like...
...prices spiked to $40 per bbl., creating anxiety among consumers and a recession for then President George Bush. Now his son is taking steps to make sure history does not repeat itself. The Bush Administration has been quietly pumping as much as 150,000 bbl. of crude oil a day this fall into the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The unheralded buildup has brought emergency stockpiles of petroleum to their highest level in history: nearly 600 million barrels. That ensures that in the event of war, President Bush can order the release of more than 4 million...
...they did during the Gulf War, by releasing part of their industry and government petroleum stockpiles. Even the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is doing its part: heavyweights such as Saudi Arabia have opened the taps, helping America fill the reserve's salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana with crude. U.S. oil prices, meanwhile, have fallen 15% since late September, to around $26.50 per bbl. --By Adam Zagorin/Washington
...their useful life, if they haven't already passed it. While defense officials suggest the missile system's battery is good for only about five years, many remain potent after 10 years. Both the basic Stinger supplied to the Afghan rebels and the Soviet-designed SA-7s are fairly crude weapons. But the CIA has launched several efforts since they were delivered in 1986-87 to get them back, offering up to $100,000 per missile, and sometimes paying more, U.S. officials say. A Stinger is five feet long, 2.75 inches in diameter, weighs 35 pounds, and is "relatively easy...