Word: crudely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Victorian society was one in which most thought black people inferior. Yet Marsh observes: "Although Victorian society was racist through and through, this is not reflected in the art." The exception - and the most disturbing section of the exhibition - parades a series of cartoons and advertisements that saw a crude humor in black caricatures. Marsh was persuaded to include these by black colleagues, who "insisted that negative imagery be included." A disclaimer by this display reads: "[To give] an entirely positive view would be to rewrite history the way we would like it to have taken place." Lest we forget...
...considerable paunch on display, the parish president rehearses his upcoming appeal to Congress: with no taxpayers and no businesses, St. Bernard has money for just one month's payroll. Rodriguez wants help from Washington--or else. "Do people realize we produce 30% of the nation's gas and crude down here? Maybe I'll shut down the only refinery in the nation that processes Venezuelan oil," he says...
...anti-oil" portfolio, as Miller calls it, should rally sharply if the price of crude slumps. But will it happen in time for him to beat the market for the 15th straight year? Miller knows the odds are against him. If only he had bought those oil and gas stocks, he laments, "we'd be nicely ahead of the market now." For once, he understands how hapless the market makes the rest of us feel, but in Miller's case, that lesson in humility may prove as ephemeral as the gathering gloom over the price...
...website is a big improvement. While useful, the old E-Resources website was a pain to navigate and made it difficult to find particular online journals and periodicals. With a long list of online journals and a crude search tool, most students resorted to browsing a few large resources like JSTOR or EconLit before they made the trek into the stacks of Widener Memorial Library, leaving most e-resources underused...
...dismiss it as rocks for jocks. With oil companies desperately searching for new sources of crude and prices above $65 per bbl., now is a good time to know your limestone. Petroleum geologists study the earth's surface and subsurface to help predict the chances of striking oil. Over the past year, the average annual salary for a geologist with three to five years' experience has climbed 11%, to $75,600, reports executive- search firm MLA Resources. Across the board, salaries are up 8%. Also, demographics are driving demand; the average age of a petroleum geologist is 49. Bob Goldstein...