Word: crudely
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...China to account. That has been done most obviously in the case of Darfur. Critics say Beijing's support for the government of Sudan--where China is the biggest investor in the growing oil industry as well as its biggest customer, importing about two-thirds of the country's crude production last year--amounts to support for genocide in Darfur. For years, Eric Reeves, a professor of English at Smith College, has been writing articles and giving speeches on Darfur and China's role there. Then in March, actress Mia Farrow wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal calling...
...Crude as it was, Burgess’s algorithm predicted parole violation more accurately than psychiatrists who had access to all the same information. You see, the psychiatrists had a handicap: they had interviewed the prisoners and based their judgments on informal impressions. Burgess’s study revealed an unintuitive truth: quick, subjective human judgments are flawed...
...course, experts are loath to accept their fallibility, and, since Burgess published his study in 1928, dozens of studies have set out to prove Burgess wrong, only to find that his insights generally hold true: crude formulas are better than personal interviews for nearly everything, from admitting college students to deciding who should undergo electroshock therapy...
...Palestinian rocket fire into Israel from Gaza has continued incessantly since 2003, and Israeli military planners and politicians know that it's only a matter of time before one of the crude homemade rockets hits a school or a supermarket, killing many Israelis...
...palaces and talk about sharing power--a meeting that both continue to deny. It was an act of desperation by a man the U.S. has long regarded as an irreplaceable ally in the war on terrorism. Opinion polls show that the majority of Pakistanis want Musharraf out, and his crude attempts to control the judiciary have backfired and created new foes. Taken together, these factors could undermine his bid to extend his rule beyond his current tenure, which expires in November. Even some within Pakistan's powerful army, which Musharraf still heads, are beginning to grumble...