Word: crudely
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...Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong was the latest reminder that Chávez, a sharp critic of U.S. foreign policy, wants to cut Venezuela's dependence on the U.S. market and start exporting to his oil-thirsty ideological ally, China. Talks are under way to build pipelines to pump Venezuelan crude to Pacific ports in Colombia and Panama for that very purpose...
...tale of the plans for building a shopping center at the World Trade Center site and the ghosts that haunt it. One story, "The Future," about a time when email will be downloaded directly into your brain and coffee cups will have interactive features about celebrities, appears in a crude, early draft style that reveals how much goes into a finished piece. (As a result it's the weak link of the collection...
...different statistical representation of men and women in science and engineering is itself proof of discrimination. Incidentally, another sign that we are dealing with a taboo is that when it comes to this issue, ordinarily intelligent scientists suddenly lose their ability to think quantitatively and warp statistical hypotheses into crude dichotomies...
...Crude oil is the most volatile commodity of the year. After dropping to $30 per bbl., it rises...
Scientists have long debated whether exercise can counteract the effects of excess weight, which would make physical activity a more important risk inhibitor than body-mass index. Proponents of the “fat but fit†hypothesis say that body-mass index is too crude a measure because it ignores body composition and levels of fitness...