Ms. Pao suggests in her suit that a senior partner's gift of "Longing" was equivalent to making a crude proposal or touching in an inappropriate place — way beyond the pale for acceptable office behavior.
But splitting hairs on definitions of "sexual relations" seems far less important to me than the larger question of what social purpose, if any, could possibly be served by allowing Paula Jones, through her lawyers, to invade the president's private life before she had even claimed, much less proved, that his alleged crude proposal had caused her any specific injury.
Judge Wright is hearing the lawsuit brought by Paula Corbin Jones, who says that Mr. Clinton made a crude sexual proposal to her in May 1991.
Media worldwide stampeded to Smith and Pendry, eager to draw comparisons between their somewhat crude theoretical proposal and the famous fictional invisibility cloaks of Harry Potter and Star Trek.
Earlier this week, Krikorian wrote an article for National Review Online with a headline that may have inspired Gaffney: "It's Time for a Grown-Up Alternative to Trump's Crude Muslim-Immigration Proposal". So, what "grown-up alternative" alternative does Krikorian have to offer?
The Brown administration dismisses the proposal as crude and potentially catastrophic, and its odds in the Democratic-controlled Senate are about nil.
Chris Keates, head of the NASUWT teachers' union, attacked the proposals as "another crude ruse to enable the secretary of state to push more schools into the hands of profit making, private companies".
This embarrassed the State Department, which is reviewing the controversial Keystone XL pipeline proposal to transport crude oil from Canada and is under fire from environmentalists.
Environmental activists oppose the proposal to truck crude across the county.
But in April, someone in government seemingly suffered a brainstorm and produced proposals to introduce a crude system of censorship.
