Word: crudely
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...most expensive examples of "bureaucratic bungling," according to Devaney, was a department program in the late 1990s to encourage oil-company exploration in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, where it's more difficult than it is on land to extract the crude. Those leases exempted the companies from having to pay royalties to the federal government. The agreements, however, were supposed to have a clause in them that lifted the exemption if oil prices shot past $36 a barrel. (Oil currently sells for more than $60 a barrel.) But because of a foul-up in drafting the deepwater...
...movie legend but ended up as the subject of movie gossip. That talk has always been minor - we're not discussing the industrial-strength suppositions impressionable people have created around the similar passing of Marilyn Monroe - yet it has also been persistent. That's because of the crude, inherent irony in it. Neither the Man of Steel nor the man playing him is supposed to have a rubbery psyche. Indeed, he's not supposed to have a psyche...
...China, sanctions represent a slippery slide to confrontation. Iran is unlikely to change its position in response to the limited sanctions that will probably be adopted, and it knows that the international community is unlikely to risk the impact on world oil prices of cutting off Iran's crude exports. Many diplomats fear that moves to isolate Iran will harden the position of its regime, and make military confrontation more likely...
That first detection of the remnants of the Big Bang was crude, but a series of increasingly sophisticated instruments, culminating in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite in 2003, have laid bare the structure of the 400,000-year-old cosmos--only a few hundred-thousandths of its present age--in surprising detail. This was the baby picture Loeb referred to. At that point, the universe was still a very simple place. "You can summarize the initial conditions," says Loeb, "on a single sheet of paper." Some regions were a tiny bit denser than average and some a little...
...grim reality of life here before the 1997 election of the liberalizer Mohammad Khatami. The difference today is the sporadic and velvet-gloved implementation of the old codes. Instead of announcing new bans or dispatching morality police onto the streets of Tehran to harass and arrest young people - the crude, classic measures that fomented much anger and discontent - the system is employing more subtle means that seek to make Iranians themselves, instead of uniformed agents of the state, the enforcers...