There's nothing nefarious going on; the managers aren't skimming off the top.
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So you guys are skimming off the top to take the better stuff?
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Reduce the heat to maintain a simmer, skimming off any scum that may arise.
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Bring to a boil, skimming off any foam or scum that rises to the surface.
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Regulation has left the industry with a Byzantine structure that presents many opportunities for skimming off money.
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Bring the chickpeas to a boil over high heat, skimming off any scum that rises to the surface.
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Far more common is garden-variety exploitation — overcharging, skimming off the top, dumb deals done in good faith.
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The goal is to prevent foreign leaders from skimming off the payments that drillers and miners make to their countries.
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The goal is to prevent foreign leaders from skimming off the payments that drillers and miners make to their countries.
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"They were skimming off people, and anyone who would get in their way, they would frame them," he told CNN.
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The days when governments could promise perpetual economic growth, with a bit of skimming off the top for redistribution, are over.
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Cardi laughed it off ... she says the dude was stealing from her by cooking the books and skimming off the top.
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The group also compromised databases with account information by inflating account balances, then skimming off the difference for themselves before anyone noticed.
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This measure would help to prevent them skimming off clients at airports and train stations from hail-down regular taxis, he told them.
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Lately, though, some people have come to wonder if PBMs serve much of a purpose at all, other than skimming off profits for themselves.
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The arrangement involved skimming off billions of dollars from an oil boom and diverting the money to the Workers' Party and its coalition partners in Congress.
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The object grazed the black hole in recent years, likely causing Sagittarius A* to suddenly flare up in 2019 after skimming off some gas from G2.
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Pending a full investigation of corruption allegations, it appears they cannot depend on the UAW to protect and invest their dues without skimming off the top.
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As it flirts with banking and health care, the company aims to serve as a middle-man, skimming off dollars from as many online transactions as it can.
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Without the legal mandate to do so, some employers have been skimming off the top—or in egregious cases have been hoarding tips to add to the bottom line.
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The car-news site Jalopnik asked Uber and Lyft drivers to send in their receipts in an effort to analyze how much the companies were skimming off the drivers' fares.
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The two brothers who headed Shared Dreams at the time — Sergio and Pablo Schoklender — have both been charged with skimming off 206 million pesos (almost $53 million at the time).
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Skimming off the top layer left a neutral, rich milk that could be the base for any ice cream flavor, in addition to another layer of sediment could be used in cones and pastries.
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On trade, no one wants Canada left out in the cold -- but we can't have a 21st century NAFTA trade deal if Canada keeps skimming off the top from our highest value-added industries.
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Letters To the Editor: David Leonhardt states, "Crucially, many charters are open to all comers, which means their success doesn't stem from skimming off the best" ("School Choice Works While Vouchers Don't," column, May 2).
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Financial innovation makes new markets and improves the allocation of resources, but Wall Street tycoons also reap huge rewards from winning wasteful arbitrage arms races, skimming off transactions and nickel-and-diming consumers with inscrutable fees.
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Crypto enthusiasts are unlikely to relish the idea of the Russian regime skimming off the top of a marketplace, but for now that seems to be the price to participate in what could be a major online economy.
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Gordon Brown, Tony Blair's chancellor, became adept at skimming off some of the City's profits and recycling it in the form of new schools and doctor's surgeries for the Labour Party's heartland constituencies in Wales and the North.
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In 1661, Nicolas Fouquet, France's finance minister under Louis XIV, threw a party so ostentatious that it convinced its observers of a long-held suspicion that the erstwhile government functionary was skimming off crown funds for his own benefit.
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According to USA Today, the main theory surrounding Hoffa's vanishing was that the Mafia killed Hoffa so that he couldn't reveal that the Mafia had infiltrated the Teamsters and was skimming off the top of the union's pension fund.
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Buying for Hitler, Hildebrand had a blank check and no scruples, obtaining works by Delacroix and Fragonard, Seurat and Courbet, sometimes to fill gaps in German museums left by the elimination of modern art, skimming off what he wanted to keep or sell.
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As can be seen from the education and income data, the United States, even in its immigrant programs aimed at the most destitute of nations like TPS or the refugee program, is skimming off the best, most qualified, most capable people from developing countries.
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Some were straightforward: Milk punch, which is already enjoying a renaissance among bartenders, is made by adding citric acid to milk so it curdles, then skimming off the solids until all that's left is a yellowish, slightly sweet liquid that is then mixed with alcohol.
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One image of the Falcon skimming the surface of a lake not only featured the rectangular radar dish seen in The Force Awakens, but its low angle shot of the ship skimming off the surface of the water looked straight out of the J.J. Abrams playbook.
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This is how the facial works: Blood is drawn from your arm and then a yellowish-clear substance, PRP, is obtained from it by using a centrifuge to separate the plasma from the red blood cells, skimming off the portion of the plasma that is platelet-rich.
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In fact, Conway was allegedly critical of Lee when speaking to LPs about Lee's lack of involvement and move to L.A. Conway also believed his former partner to be paying himself far and above the fund's $250,000 annual salary cap by skimming off of SV Angel funds through a technique known as a fee waiver, a fairly common way for fund managers to cover the costs they are expected to invest upfront.
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It's a signal that is carried loud and clear, from the GOP welcoming Greg Gianoforte with open arms to Trump's bullying behavior towards the Khans and Serge Kovaleski and the Mayor of London to 13 GOP Senators dismantling healthcare for millions in secret to Eric Trump responding to a deeply-reported article about his father skimming off his charity for children's cancer by saying that Democrats weren't even people to Jared and Ivanka's complicit, enabling silence.
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The same gun had been used in both cases. It was alleged that their honesty was coming in the way of a political mafia who were skimming off large sums from the health services.
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Allanblackia ulugurensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Clusiaceae. It is found only in Tanzania. Its seeds produce an edible oil, which can be extracted by pounding, boiling, and skimming off the fat.
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GiveForward.com platform charges 7.9% on all transactions, which includes the per transaction fee charged by credit card companies.Holiday, Ryan. Skimming Off The Top: Social Giving Sites Take a Huge Cut Of The Check. Betabeat. May 27, 2014.
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Southern bayberry's fruits are a traditional source of the wax for old-fashioned Christmas decorations called bayberry candles. The wax was extracted by boiling the berries, and skimming off the floating hydrocarbons. The fats were then boiled again and then strained. After that the liquid was usable in candle making, whether through dipping or molding.
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The items exported consisted primarily of hides, dried meat, and mats of dried berries. Imports consisted of various marine products, the most important of which was "grease", the oil extracted from eulachons (also known as "candlefish") by allowing them to rot, adding boiling water, and skimming off the oil. This oil is extremely nutritious and, unlike many other fats, contains desirable fatty acids. Other important imports were smoked eulachons and dried red laver seaweed.
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His forced retirement as town councillor of Mussomeli, his arrest and years of confinement initiated the decline of Genco Russo’s power. Within the Mafia a new generation of mafiosi was coming to the forefront. Genco Russo represented the old rural and semi-feudal Mafia that based their power on access to land openly acknowledged community power. The new generation was more entrepreneurial and made their money with cigarette smuggling, drug trafficking, skimming off public contracts and speculating in real estate.
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On 18 January 1988, the CNCA Privatisation Act came into force. CNCA was transformed into a public limited company, with a 90% stake sold to the Regional Banks and 10% to staff. Crédit Agricole became fully independent of the government, putting an end to the latter's practice of skimming off surplus funds. In 1990, Crédit Agricole lost the monopoly on granting low- interest loans to farmers and one year later, in 1991, the "normalisation" process was completed as it was allowed to begin financing large corporations.
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Jessica Lack in The Guardian described the variety of styles and genres in his films, "skimming off a wide range of artistic references from prog rock to hit TV series The Prisoner, with which he creates brilliantly offbeat installations". He was represented in the Tate Trienniel 2009, Altermodern, by a work Giantbum 2009, based on a story written by him about a party of medieval explorers who lose their way in the body of a giant. The work used film and animatronic heads.Searle, Adrian.
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Nevertheless, the starving prisoners seldom refused the food, which was made consumable by placing it in a kettle of water and skimming off the parasites. Supplies for sick prisoners were provided by the fledgling American government, as Hanford stated that "the British furnished nothing." Deceased prisoners were sewn up into their blankets and placed in a corner of the yard for pickup by a dead cart in the morning; as many as fifteen bodies once accumulated in the period of one day. Prisoner exchanges were organized with the oldest prisoners having priority.
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The copper cauldron where the must is boiled The raw material comes from any of the red and white grapes of the region, particularly damaged bunches, and may include the pomace left over from normal winemaking. Thus it is a way to ensure that none of the harvest is wasted. This material is crushed and cooked in a large cauldron over a fire for 24 hours, which gives its characteristic aromas. Traditionally two men attended it, taking turns to sleep and constantly stirring and skimming off the scum that formed on the surface.
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The jointer plane, also known as the try plane or trying plane, is a type of hand plane used in woodworking to straighten the edges of boards in the process known as jointing, and to flatten the faces of larger boards. Its long length is designed to 'ride over' the undulations of an uneven surface, skimming off the peaks, gradually creating a flatter surface. In thicknessing or preparing rough stock, the jointer plane is usually preceded by the fore plane or jack plane and followed by the smoothing plane.Schwarz, Christopher.
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Harvested sugarcane from Venezuela ready for processing Since the 6th century BC, cane sugar producers have crushed the harvested vegetable material from sugarcane in order to collect and filter the juice. They then treat the liquid (often with lime (calcium oxide)) to remove impurities and then neutralize it. Boiling the juice then allows the sediment to settle to the bottom for dredging out, while the scum rises to the surface for skimming off. In cooling, the liquid crystallizes, usually in the process of stirring, to produce sugar crystals.
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Hit man Ronald Baricuatro, apprehended in February 2012 and connected to the assassination of Mike Lontoc in September 2011, stated he was hired by Smith to conduct surveillance on journalist Mar T. Supnad in preparation of a planned hit. Both hits were in connection with the seizure of the Captain Ufuk in 2009. In 2011, Le Roux began suspecting Smith of skimming off drugs and gold from shipments, and had him assassinated. According to one source, Smith was kidnapped outside a bar while drunk, and placed in a shallow grave.
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Messina Denaro gets his money through an extensive extortion racket forcing businesses to pay a pizzo (protection money) and skimming off public construction contracts (the family owns substantial sand quarries). He is also active in the international drug trade, allegedly with the Cuntrera-Caruana clan, attracting attention of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). According to the Direzione distrettuale antimafia (DDA) of Palermo he has interests in Venezuela and contacts with Colombian drug trafficking cartels as well as the 'Ndrangheta. His illicit networks extend to Belgium and Germany.
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"The Lucchese family: A Revolving Door" by Anthony Bruno TruTV Crime Library Steven "Wonderboy" Crea's success with the labor and construction rackets convinced Amuso that DeFede had been previously skimming off these profits. In late 1999, Amuso placed a contract on DeFede's life. On September 6, 2000, Crea and seven other Lucchese members were arrested and jailed on extortion charges, mostly to the supervising of the construction sites with various capos Dominic Truscello and Joseph Tangorra."Construction Indictments" District Attorney New York County Press release September 6, 2000 After Crea's imprisonment, the consigliere Louis "Lou Bagels" Daidone, took control of the family.
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One of them told SI that despite the Nationals billing him as a five-tool player, "he doesn't run all that well, and has an average arm." In a press conference later that day, Nationals president Stan Kasten confirmed that Gonzalez's real name was indeed Carlos Alvarez Lugo. A visibly angry Kasten said the Nationals had been victimized by "a deliberate, premeditated fraud" involving several people and a raft of falsified records. He added that he'd asked for a further inquiry in response to revelations that Chicago White Sox officials were skimming off the signing bonuses of Latino prospects.
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Patsy, who much prefers living on the street and drinking to her heart's content, has been unwillingly placed in the home by Judge Daly and lawyer Johnny Mills (Roger Pryor); the latter was asked by his now-deceased father to look after Patsy. Patsy is touched by Alabam's kind nature, and starts to reform both herself and her new daughter. She curtails her drinking and finds out that Kendall has been skimming off most of Alabam's nightclub salary; Alabam fires Kendall as a result. Patsy gets in a crap game and wins $7000, which she passes off as an inheritance.
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Winter and Salcer had been critical of Eagleson's stewardship for many years, and felt he was not giving them the support they needed to adequately represent their clients. The report, presented at a union meeting in West Palm Beach, revealed that Eagleson's travel expenses were not subject to any form of review by the union. Winter and Salcer also charged that Eagleson was skimming off money from advertising on the dasher boards, and had lent pension money to friends. Eagleson was able to weather this storm because the union's executive committee was stacked with longtime associates.
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The Spano fiasco was highly embarrassing to the NHL, which was still reeling from revelations that former NHLPA head Alan Eagleson had lied to his clients and enriched himself by skimming off the union's pension fund. The NHL was particularly shaken after it was revealed that it spent well under $1,000 evaluating Spano's credentials (estimates range from $525 to $750); most leagues spend well over $30,000 to evaluate prospective team owners. When Spano bid for the Stars, the team was satisfied by a letter supposedly from Comerica attesting to his net worth. Prospective NHL owners are now vetted by Ernst and Young and a New York City accounting firm.
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Iamonte rose to power by killing the local Ndrangheta boss Giuseppe Trimarchi in the 1960s. In mare il tritolo mafioso, La Repubblica, April 30, 1995 Originally a butcher, he made his fortune skimming off public contracts destined for the development of Calabria which was among the poorest regions of Italy. The construction of a refinery of Liquichimica in Saline Ioniche – a project that would amount to 300 billion lire – was one those projects that was completed in 1979. The plant never became operative because it was built on unstable terrain, subject to landslides, despite the warnings of the head of the local civil engineer office who died in a strange car accident.
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The Economics of School Choice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 227-286. To prevent private schools from "skimming off" the wealthiest and most talented students, they argue in favour of sophisticated combinations of tuition floors and ceilings, which allow school vouchers to provide the benefits of school competition without making participation in the voucher system compulsory or abiding very high levels of educational stratification. Finally, Epple's and Romano's work on the impact of educational peer effects on student sorting into private and public education has also been applied (together with Holger Sieg) to higher education, which also witnesses the emergence of a hierarchy of schools in terms of quality that is associated with corresponding stratification among students by income and ability.
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According to Italian DIA (Direzione Investigativa Antimafia), Salvatore Lo Piccolo and his son, Sandro Lo Piccolo, were in charge of most of the urban territory of Palermo. Their area of influence encompassed the "mandamenti" of San Lorenzo, Passo di Rigano and Gangi, including the coastal area up to Cefalù, and part of the territory of Messina, including the towns of Mistretta and Tortorici.Report concerning the activities conducted and the results obtained by the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (DIA), first half of 2000 Mafia cerca il confronto con lo Stato, Sebastiano Gulisano, Polizia e democrazia, September 2001 Lo Piccolo allegedly made his fortune with drug trafficking and skimming off public contracts. He forced the residents of the low-income housing projects in the ZEN area of Palermo to pay him to keep the building corridors lit.
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Beginning in 2009, policemen in parts of Afghanistan began to be paid through their cell phones, which prevented their superiors from skimming off part of their wages. According to MIT Technology Review, the bribes had been so immense that on their first pay period on the phone system, the police officers believed they had received a pay raise, when in fact they were simply receiving their full pay without any administrative bribes or extortion taking place. Reuters reported in August 2011 that "an expanding dossier of unresolved police violence and corruption cases ... have alienated Afghans," and that this called into question the feasibility of rebuilding the civic institutions of the war-torn nation. Fox News reported in October 2014 that Afghan officials may have systematically stolen $300 million from a UNDP trust fund used to pay police officers in Afghanistan and that European Union donors had withheld about $100 million in contributions to the fund owing to concerns about the fund's management.
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At this point, Marcos controlled both the oligarchy and the oligopoly. According to Jovito Salonga, monopolies in several vital industries were created and placed under the control of Marcos cronies, such as the coconut industries (under Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. and Juan Ponce Enrile), the tobacco industry (under Lucio Tan), the banana industry (under Antonio Floirendo), the sugar industry (under Roberto Benedicto), and manufacturing (under Herminio Disini and Ricardo Silverio). The Marcos and Romualdez families became owners, directly or indirectly, of the nation's largest corporations, such as the Philippine Long Distance Company (PLDC), of which the present name is Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT), Philippine Airlines (PAL), Meralco (an electric company), Fortune Tobacco, numerous newspapers, radio and TV broadcasting companies (such as ABS-CBN), several banks (most notably the Philippine Commercial and Industrial Bank; PCIBank of the Lopezes [now BDO after merging with Equitable Bank and after BDO acquired the merged Equitable PCI]), and real estate in New York, California and Hawaii. The Aquino government also accused them of skimming off foreign aid and international assistance.
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Among the sources of the Marcos wealth are alleged to be diverted foreign economic aid, US Government military aid (including huge discretionary funds at Marcos disposal as a "reward" for sending some Filipino troops to Vietnam) and kickbacks from public works contracts over a 2-decades-long rule. According to Jovito Salonga in his book "Presidential Plunder", which details Salonga's time as head of the Presidential Commission on Good Government, these cronies helped the Marcoses amass his wealth by aiding him in one or more of what Salonga called "Marcos' Techniques of Plunder". These techniques, says Salonga, were: > # Creating monopolies and putting them under the control of cronies; # > Awarding behest loans to cronies from Government banking or financing > institutions; # Forced takeovers of various public or private enterprises, > with a nominal amount as payment; # Direct raiding of the public treasury > and Government Financing Institutions; # Issuance of Presidential Decrees or > orders, enabling cronies to amass wealth; # Kickbacks and commissions from > enterprises doing business in the Philippines; # Use of shell corporations > and dummy companies to launder money overseas; # Skimming off of Foreign Aid > and other forms of International Assistance; and # Hiding wealth in overseas > bank accounts using pseudonyms or code names.
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In practice it is unlikely that people would simply sit and wait for nuclear decay to go to completion, as in all historical fallout cases, decontamination of valuable land has occurred. This is most commonly done with the use of simple equipment such as lead glass covered excavators and bulldozers, similar to those employed in the Lake Chagan project. By skimming off the thin layer of fallout on the topsoil surface and burying it in the likes of a deep trench along with isolating it from ground water sources, the gamma air dose is cut by orders of magnitude.International Atomic Energy Agency International Atomic Enmergy Agency, 2000 - Technology & Engineering - restoration of environments with radioactive residues : papers and discussions, 697 pages The decontamination after the Goiânia accident in Brazil in 1987 and the possibility of a "dirty bomb" with Co-60, which has similarities with the environment that one would be faced with after a nuclear yielding cobalt bomb's fallout had settled, has prompted the invention of "Sequestration Coatings" and cheap liquid phase sorbents for Co-60 that would further aid in decontamination, including that of water.
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