Word: crudely
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BAC’s trick to success, in fact, is its deceptive simplicity. What appears to be crude and effortless is actually a very carefully plotted rusticity. This is attested to by the seamless transitions from one performance to another, the stylish, catchy tunes of a band perched above the ring’s main entrance and the fact that the show is tailored as much to the kids as to their parents. While the two clowns perform the requisite silly circus jokes and pranks their appearances are interspersed between well-choreographed couples’ dance and acrobatic routines that...
...should work toward energy conservation and efficiency because the development of the coastal plain would by no means make us independent of foreign oil. Imports of crude oil and refined products now cost the nation an annual $40 billion. According the U.S. Department of Commerce, oil represents the largest single commodity in the U.S. Balance of Trade deficit with other nations. But with the development of ANWR, our increased domestic production would decrease the deficit caused by crude oil imports, all the while, according to Wharton Economic Forecasting Associations, creating an estimated 736,000 jobs...
...staff editorial “Protect the Refuge” (Editorial, March 5), The Crimson leaves out key facts that make the case for drilling very persuasive. The article says that the USGS predicts that there are only “3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable crude oil” in the reserve; however, that misrepresents the total amount available. The phrase “economically recoverable” only means the amount of oil “for which the costs of discovery, development, and production, including a return to capital, can be recovered at a given well...
...These days 200,000 people live here. There are no shops, just muddy, improvised bazaars. There is little work. Some residents scavenge bricks from ruins for resale, others sell the crude oil that bubbles up in many backyards - oil is one of the main prizes being fought over in this war. Many thousands depend on handouts from the few international agencies working in the city. Grozny's mayor, Beslan Gantemirov - amnestied in 1999 from a Russian prison where he was serving six years for embezzling municipal reconstruction funds after the last Chechen war in the mid-'90s - is highly visible...
Asteroids. Frogger. Centipede. Long before PlayStation was a twinkle in Sony's eye, these primitive video games with their blips and beeps and crude graphics, hallmark titles for the Atari 2600 game console, earned a sentimental spot in our hearts. And though the Atari 2600 more or less vanished 15 years ago, it's re-surfacing among nostalgic video-game enthusiasts...