Word: crudely
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...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is in Vienna again, putting their heads together over production cuts that could lop anywhere from 500,000 to 1,500,000 barrels of crude oil off their 25 million-per-day output. TIME senior economics reporter Bernie Baumohl explains what OPEC is after - and how the wrong move could put the global economy on a slippery slope...
...that crude. The hawks in the Bush administration - including Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney - are Cold War veterans who are not inclined to trust North Korea or China, which remains the behind-the-scenes sponsor of Korean rapprochement. They suspect that if Beijing managed to resolve the Korean conflict, it would remove Washington's rationale for stationing close to 40,000 troops on the Korean peninsula, between China and Japan - and that, the hawks fear, could dramatically tip the regional strategic balance in Beijing's favor...
...honest, the style of Kong is crude; the digital techniques of today are so much more sophisticated than the gross, mechanical movement of the steel-armatured puppets. The principal emotional modes are comedic, bathetic or scary. And "Kong" isn't scary, at least not to a modern audience, and the emotional moments are far too sentimental for modern tastes. Yet it works! Somehow, like Karloff with his brilliant miming in the James Whale Frankenstein pictures, O'Brien makes Kong into something not just alive, but worthy of our sympathy...
Back at Harvard. Now the fun begins. "Research" at this stage may be pretty crude, and the learning curve is immense. You may think you understand Widener/microfilms/your topic/the nature of reality, but after a few weeks of reading you will realize how difficult it is to get sources, how foolishly broad your topic sounds or how banally obvious. Do not despair; it seems that all of us are humbled as we strive to join the company of educated men and women...
...over the course of the war, she said, different methods of identifying the lost and dead were used, including rough, inaccurate newspaper reporting, letters from other soldiers and commanding offices and crude forms of self-identification...