There's a perception that Nike has somehow changed the rules of athletic success in a crass or craven way.

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It raises the question of whether administration's detention policy is actually shaped by a crass political calculus of not antagonizing its liberal base in advance of what promises to be a difficult 2012 election.

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About half an hour's drive from Quebec City, it may aptly symbolise Cardinal Ouellet's view of a beautiful truth hemmed in by a crass world.

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And he denied having made a "crass calculation" about how The Sun's endorsement of Cameron's Conservative party before the 2010 elections would affect News Corp.

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The government's military campaign has so far been a bit less crass, though hardly less brutal, than it was in 1994-96, when perhaps 80, 000 people were killed, Chechnya won de facto independence and Russia was humiliated.

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"Mr. Ecclestone's comments were crass, ignorant and insensitive, " he said in a statement issued to CNN.

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The same calculation may be at work in the government's new enthusiasm for politics by internet, which some fear may lead to a crass majoritarianism.

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Mr Brown has neither Mr Obama's charm, nor the excuse that he was making a reasonable point in a rather crass way.

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Although much maligned, Emmanuel's call not to let a good crisis go to waste can be taken as a crass way of saying that every cloud has a silver lining.

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