Before the boom, the University of Texas consisted of a small number of crude buildings near Austin.
One was the Sacred Hut, the crude stone building in which St. Francis and his first followers had lived in voluntary poverty and invented a brotherhood.
I went to Hainan to go scuba diving and stayed in a most minimal hotel in Sanya, a crude wooden building built around a courtyard where the laundry was hung out to dry.
That has lead to crude inventory building.
Two-storey homes covered with white tiles have replaced many of the old, crude brick buildings.
Isolated by the mountains that surround it, Bingol has about 70,000 people, Mr. Beki said, although its crude concrete buildings look like they can accommodate only half that number.
Photographing another project for the league on Martha's Vineyard in the late 1930's, a Methodist summer retreat, he was more intrigued by the crude, funky buildings, architectural remnants and the shadow play they generated than he was by the lives of the inhabitants.
After two years of acrimony by a strong, well-organized opposition that frequently disrupted construction, such admissions could not be more welcome for the consortium of multinational oil companies building the heavy-crude pipeline, known by its Spanish initials, O.C.P.
To increase delivery of oil sands crude, TransCanada is building the Keystone pipeline system.
Worse, they fear, may be to come.Kidnappings and attacks on oil installations have been frequent in the delta, where armed militias roam the creeks, illegally tapping crude oil and building up their arsenals with the proceeds.
