Word: crudely
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...technology that the nine justices of the Supreme Court wrestled with last week was relatively crude: a heat-sensing gun pointed at a house in Florence, Ore., by federal agents on the lookout for homegrown marijuana. In 1992, a cop using the device had spotted a lot of excess heat coming off high-intensity grow lights. Police searched the house, found more than 100 plants and arrested one of its occupants--a small-time marijuana grower named Danny Kyllo. Kyllo appealed the case all the way to the highest court, arguing that by using infrared technology to pry into...
...nervous pacing or heaving diaphragm, the motions are translated into a bar of LED lights in which the height of the bar corresponds with the amount of movement in the room. In more sophisticated radar detectors, like the prototype made by Time Domain Corporation of Huntsville, Ala., the crude LED display is replaced by dancing circles and colored blobs that show both the location and trajectory of moving objects on the other side of an opaque barrier...
...current 3.4% pace. "The balance of power is shifting away from employees to employers," says Berner, "and we'll see that in terms of pay gains and the kinds of jobs that are available." Any drops in energy costs will also help keep inflation in check. Dudley expects crude-oil prices to fall from $28 a bbl. at present to "the low 20s" this summer, a decline that will deliver "a positive energy shock...
Richardson also urges the Administration to drop its laissez-faire stance toward OPEC and exert pressure on the cartel to raise exports of crude oil. OPEC voted this month to maintain its output at 24.2 million barrels a day. But it will meet again in July to consider raising prices if Iraq continues to withhold oil from the market as part of a running dispute with the U.N. over sanctions...
...citoyens! Shake off passivity. We must recover some of the aesthetic activism that came into play in the Astor Place Riots of May, 1849, when New York audiences of Shakespeare divided their loyalties between the American actor Edwin Forrest and the British actor William Charles Macready. Forrest gave a crude, robust, vehement interpretation of Macbeth. Macready was more cerebral...