Word: crudely
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...four or five" militant friends, says a juwae's first task is to scatter leaflets, crude photocopies bearing death threats or diatribes against "Siamese infidels." He quickly graduates to vandalism?for example, burning the Thai flags that villagers are ordered by the authorities to display outside their homes?and then to actual militant attacks, acting as a lookout or helping to block roads with felled trees or burning tires. Later, he might plant a bomb in a teashop or other public place, which others will remotely detonate. Later still, he might remotely detonate it himself...
...more dangerous than you realize. One time I went to pass in a paper at the end of class, only to realize that I had passed the hour blissfully doodling all over the back of it. I had a hell of a time trying to erase my crude cubes, stars, and my stream-of-consciousness note of “this class sucks” before I handed...
...over not only due to their low cost and high quantity production rates, but also because “they enable the free flow of images and ideas to a wide-ranging public,” according to the show’s text. Or, in the slightly more crude language of the 1960s underground student newspaper the Old Mole—several issues of which are included in the show—because you can print protest on media including a “t-shirt, jacket, poster, your ass.” For the record, of the four...
...international trading community? By joining the WTO, Vietnam hopes to become free from trade restrictions such as garment quotas that in the past have constrained its exports to the U.S. and Europe. Textile manufacturing employs 2 million Vietnamese and is the country's largest export earner after crude oil. But Vietnam's trade relations with the West have sometimes been prickly. The U.S. in recent years has imposed antidumping tariffs on Vietnamese shrimp and catfish; the E.U. recently placed similar restrictions on Vietnamese-made shoes. While WTO membership gives Vietnam the ability to challenge such barriers, the country may still...
...Jong Il's nuclear blast in North Korea signaled an unsettling new era in the nuclear-arms race. The rules of the cold war have been replaced with a crude survival-of-the-fittest code. Many readers blamed the U.S. for misplaced attention on Iraq, allowing the North Korean threat to increase...