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CRU is the world’s largest independent business analysis and consultancy group focusing on the mining, metals, power, cables, fertilizer and chemical sectors. The company was founded in 1969 as Commodities Research Unit by Robert Perlman and John Horam, former journalists at The Economist. The founding Chairman was Sir Sigmund Sternberg. The company is still privately owned, and has offices in London, Beijing, Singapore, Rhode Island, Sydney, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Rio de Janeiro, Seattle, Philadelphia, Santiago and Washington DC.
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Cru can be:a term used to describe wines (see Grand cru or First Growth)Crux (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviationthe 2005 album Cru by Seu JorgeCampus Crusade for Christ, standard abbreviationCru (comics), a Marvel comics villain to Carol DanversCompensation Recovery Unit, a section of the Department for Work and Pensions within the United Kingdom
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adj. raw, uncooked; garish; blunt, crude

n. vineyard, recruit

v. believe; think, deem, suppose; imagine; consider, conceive; guess

v. grow, wax, swell

adj. raw, crude; unbaked, uncooked, unbleached

adj. crude, coarse, rude; unrefined, raw

 Central Reexamination Unit

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