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...Examples of peer harassment included display of inappropriate posters of women, perceptions of inferiority or advantage of women due to affirmative action, crude remarks and exclusion from group activities," the study reported...
...basins containing seeds, grindstones -- and a human footprint. The foundation of a wishbone-shaped structure held the remains of more than 20 types of medicinal plants, some of which bore marks that may be the imprints of human molars. Most intriguing of all, the scientists unearthed wooden foundations and crude timbers that Dillehay believes supported an oval, tentlike dwelling similar to late Pleistocene shelters found on the Siberian plains. Says he: "We know these people exploited a wide variety of resources stretching from Monte Verde all the way to the coast. They used wood, ate plants, fashioned stone tools...
Yeltsin suspects his supporters' Constitutional Court challenge to this requirement will not succeed, because the Chief Justice, Valeri Zorkin, has joined forces with the parliamentary camp in earlier struggles. If his suspicion is correct, he will issue a decree dismissing the new majority provision as "a crude violation of the constitution and the law on referendums." In other words, if he gains the approval of a simple majority of those who vote, he will raise his own hand as the winner. Once that is done, he says, he intends to be "more decisive" in pursuing a "whole package" of initiatives...
...Just grow up as fast as you can," a storekeeper advised Jonathan, and so , he did, throttling the hatred that gave his life meaning. He learned to read from his only possession, a secondhand McGuffey's, and molded himself a crude set of false teeth. At 16, he ran away to Denver and got a job as a railway brakeman. He also made a friend, nicknamed College, whose family in Maine welcomed Jonathan after their son's death. Jonathan traveled the country in a vain search for his father -- someone to give him an anchor and a bloodline. In time...
...absurd conceits like the crude alienation technique of arguing over whose line is whose, or bringing the musicians onto the stage to perform with the actors mid-scene better indicate the general standard of direction...