Word: crudely
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...year-old Texan who operates like the Indiana Jones of the oil patch. Gene Van Dyke is one of the last of the wildcatters, independent operators who roam jungles and deserts looking for black gold. He has become the man to see if you need millions of barrels of crude oil a day to fuel a booming industrializing country, which is why the rough-hewn geologist found himself in Bermuda two years ago, hammering out a deal with executives of the Chinese national oil company Sinopec. "They were under pressure," Van Dyke recalls, and they were ready to make...
...students under the guise of personal expression and the breaking down of repressive taboos. College is presumably a moment for reflection and self-definition aside from commercialism, rather than the time to be transformed into the faithful consumer of new and varied products. The Nov. 3 event was crude, not because of the coarse language used by the speaker, but because it was a simple display of the market at work, co-opting what might have been a genuine attempt to reflect on a topic of significance. If the organizers of the event believed otherwise, they were deceived...
...supposed to be racist, stagnant, and repressive. We are the ones who supposedly shunt away our unwanted and care only for certain types of citizens. We are the ones that segregated the races. Most of all we, and not our enlightened European brethren, are the violent and the crude. Reality, however, even long-suppressed and denied reality, has a nasty habit of rearing its head. As we have all been told by the Associated Press and other mainstream media, the mayhem that swept through neglected and impoverished neighborhoods with large African and Arab communities has been building for decades. Although...
...seven-figure offers to write the fourth Indiana Jones movie and adapt The Da Vinci Code. Instead, inspired by an anecdote about an oil lobbyist in See No Evil, a memoir by former CIA officer Robert Baer, Gaghan decided to make a complex, journalistic movie about the politics of crude. "It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about," says Gaghan. "The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint...
...short and (un)sweet, “Get out” should suffice, even if you throw a little “please” onto the end. Or if this is too crude for your liking, just tack on an excuse like “because I have to shampoo my hair.” If they still won’t leave, call the nearest varsity athlete and have the lingering offenders hauled out into the cold...