Word: crudely
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These scheduling flaws are particularly harmful because NCAA selection committees in the past, across all sports, will likely make their picks based solely on crude statistical measurements like wins and losses, and not on the circumstances surrounding the game--like where the game was played, how rusty or overworked the teams were at game time, and how many Olympians were absent from each team on that...
Occasionally, SAS sells hard-to obtain products that are necessary for the projects in the column to amateurs, which gives a crude estimate of the number of people who are attempting the projects described. The most popular column demonstrated the phenomenon of audio illusions, which are roughly analogous to their visual counterparts; 700 copies were sold...
...scorned; Sim Rosedale (La Paglia), another of Lily's suitors, earns scowls because he was crude enough to earn his money instead of inheriting it. But Lily has no wealth to cushion her fall. Her old, sure sashay down garden paths is now a scurry along tenement streets; she is afraid of being seen by those who once were pleased to say they knew...
...article "A New Factory for a New Age," about an advanced powder metallurgy press, contained some inaccuracies. Although the new metal powder compacting system developed by Mii Technologies that you focused on is a genuine breakthrough, it was wrong to characterize the compacting presses currently in use as "remarkably crude." They are light-years away from that description. Today's presses are computer-monitored precision-production machines that can produce high-quality products at a fast rate. You were also wrong to state that current powder presses are the size of a tractor trailer and demand "the ministrations...
...scare-your-pants-off scenario. At the moment, though, most experts are more optimistic. Despite the capacity strains, they don't think the oil pinch will get anywhere near so bad. Indeed, in the absence of a Middle East war or some other unforeseen calamity, the price of crude is expected to drift down after the winter peak-demand period, perhaps to less than $30 per bbl. by spring and even into the low-$20 range by the end of 2001. Says Yergin, one of the country's foremost experts on the energy supply: "We should see the fundamentals...