Imports rose 2.6 percent in November, largely because crude imports rose to $17.8 billion, from $17.4 billion in October.
When OPEC turned on 2 million barrels a day of excess production, the worlds refiners turned their noses up because it was largely sour crude.
For all of analysts' warnings against getting sucked into an premature rally, investors have largely downplayed crude oversupply because they are eager to play the eventual but elusive economic recovery.
Most estimates of global dietary fats and oils have relied largely on crude disappearance or expenditure data, 14 15 16 17 18 which imperfectly capture consumption levels, cannot evaluate differences within the population, and often exclude key fats such as trans fats or plant omega 3 fats.
Welfare for young adults is being cut more than welfare for the old largely because of crude politics: the old are more likely to vote.
Finally, we can cut our oil imports in half, largely by tapping crude oil stranded in aging American wells, through the emerging technology this legislation would encourage.
In the wake of the Liberal Democrats' tuition fee U-turn, that era was characterised largely by its crude anti-politics, as well as its press-friendly lines about intergenerational injustice and conflict.
Visible phenotypes were invaluable for uncovering molecular pathways that regulated behavior, but were largely based on crude classifications such as hypo- or hyper-kinesis or a focus on arbitrarily defined features.
Although others have reported favorable levels of neuropathy in Indian Asians, these reports relied largely on subjective, crude measures of advanced neuropathy, and explanations for ethnic differences were not explored (4, 5, 15).
Large oil companies were largely down on lackluster crude trading, with Exxon Mobil losing 97 cents to $66.55, and Chevron off 42 cents to $63.24.
