Word: crudely
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...Ahead of President Karzai's election in 2004, crude rockets fell weekly around the Kabul. But until May, the capital had been relatively insulated from the chaos in the south, which has left hundreds dead in recent weeks. This week may mark a turning point. Two blasts tore through buses in the morning rush hour, one carrying Afghan soldiers and another filled with government officials on their way to work - a day after two similar blasts near government ministries. There hadn't been a major bombing in Kabul since March. when a suicide bomber tried and failed to kill...
...making oil and gas significant tools of its foreign policy. The clearest sign came last winter, when the state-controlled gas behemoth Gazprom shut off supplies to Ukraine for several days, in what the Russians described as a price dispute but Ukraine and many others took to be a crude political move to punish Kiev for embracing Western institutions such as nato. More recently, Russian government officials have talked tough with West European leaders, raising the prospect that they might divert energy supplies to China and the U.S. if the Europeans don't meet their demands for better access...
...question has come into stark relief following a series of environmental and safety lapses - and, as of this week, Federal charges of price-fixing - which have muddied up the company's carefully cultivated image. In March, BP?s Exploration Alaska subsidiary spilled more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil near Prudhoe Bay, the largest North Slope spill ever. A Federal grand jury is investigating the spill, caused by a rupture in a corroded pipeline, and may bring criminal charges. BP has denied that it acted negligently regarding the spill...
...tried to corner the market for propane ?with the knowledge, advice and consent of senior management.? This wasn?t the first time BP has been accused of price fixing. In 2003, the company paid a $2.5 million penalty to the New York Mercantile Exchange to settle charges of improper crude-oil trading (the firm didn?t admit or deny wrongdoing). BP has since fired some employees involved in the alleged propane scheme, though it maintains that ?market manipulation did not occur,? and has vowed to fight the charges in court. Prevailing in the case could prove tough, however, since...
...trip that "China is not seeking selfish interests" in Africa. But with the country's insatiable thirst for energy, Africa has swiftly become one of its key business partners: trade between China and Africa jumped 37% to $40 billion in 2005, and Angola was China's top provider of crude oil in the early months of this year. Here are just some of the deals Wen, Hu and Li took home...