Word: crudely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...battered oil sector could take another direct hit. The rise was tempered by an offer by OPEC to release an extra 2 million barrels a day on world markets, which helped prices to ease slightly on the New York Mercantile Exchange-where the cost of a barrel of light crude had risen by more than $4 Monday, the biggest one-day increase in history...
...those facts are straightforward--but facts need context and interpretation to be meaningful. It's not clear whether younger women are more willing to try same-sex encounters because they're afraid of getting pregnant, because it's trendy or because boys their age can be so crude. ("At least another girl isn't always trying to push her penis into you," said one teenager, reacting to the study.) We simply don't know the answer, says William Mosher, lead author of the study. "That's the kind of thing you could look at with further surveys...
...refining plants, the handful of angry truckers who spoke out did manage to throw a spotlight on a major, if little-understood, factor behind the current international fuel crisis. In the past, when gas prices spiked, notably in the late 1970s, the problem was caused by high crude oil prices. This month, as global gas prices took a steady upward march in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the price of crude oil - although still high by recent standards - was actually falling. That's because the real problem isn't crude oil prices. Crude oil is useless unless it is refined...
...abandoned houses are marked with crude red Xs, their windows spray-painted with the number of bodies found inside. The French Quarter and the Garden District lie dark and deserted, a wasteland of downed power lines, cars with flat tires, massive Spanish oaks toppled at their roots and scattered reminders of the city's former self--a cookbook open to a recipe for ham croquettes, strings of Mardi Gras beads. What little life remains in New Orleans is largely devoted to counting the dead, a task so vast and grim that even the city's coroner, Frank Minyard, doesn...
...picked up a $10 pair of skippies at Wal-Mart. As his wife rolled her eyes, Krafsur filleted the sole of each sneaker like a fresh trout, stuck springs in the heel and the forefoot and duct-taped them back together. He ran down his driveway in the crude shoes. Says Krafsur: "My eyes bugged...