Word: crudely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dull boy - one who doesn't buy as many Macs, Dells, Gateways or the chips that go into them as those companies and their investors are used to. There's fretting about the U.S. slowdown being too slow and too down, and whether a tightening Greenspan got ambushed by crude-oil prices...
...stability. That's why at week's end the cartel suggested that its goal was to lift production enough to bring prices down to between $22 and $28 per bbl.--a level that should ease the sense of crisis felt from Washington to Tokyo. Last week the price of crude oil closed...
...hell," says Brandon of his first year at Baraka. He kept talking back to his teachers, again and again, and landed in the "boma," a crude, isolated group of tents surrounded by thornbushes that Baraka used for punishment. For smaller matters like swearing or sleeping in class, discipline worked on a point system. Staying out of trouble earned students safaris, video nights and trips to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, three hours south of the school...
...began to appear, laboring to push, as it were, out of the ether behind them. Then, in 1970, he unveiled a complete change. Inspired by the banal, ordinary objects in his apartment and studio, Guston began to paint shoes, books, easels, clocks and the like with a confident, almost crude, naivet, reveling in the physical nature of things, of paint and of the act of painting. The ensemble of 27 small paintings in A New Alphabet that together recreate a wall of Guston's Woodstock, N.Y. home circa 1970 neatly represents the range and form of Guston's new vocabulary...
Pumping more crude oil into the system won't help since refineries are already operating at 95% capacity, and not enough crude can be turned into heating oil to make a real difference by winter. Besides, if oil-producing countries cut back supply in response to the U.S. release, they will wipe out its impact. Bush maintains the reserve should be used only in a true crisis. He agrees that the government should help low-income elderly with their heating bills, but he proposes no other short-term way of bringing down prices, other than to argue that he would...