Word: skim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iran still claims that "the principle of sharing profits fifty-fifty between partners has been respected." it will get its extra 25% by bringing the state-run National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) in as an equal partner with Italy's ENI. From any profits, the Iranian government will skim a 50% royalty off the top; then the remaining 50% will be divided equally between ENI and NIOC. In addition, ENI will ante up NIOC's initial contribution to the joint company on a "loan" basis, pump another $22,250,000 into the venture over the next twelve years...
...Reducing pills sold without prescription are not only useless and possibly dangerous but exorbitantly priced," Nutritionist S. William Kalb of Newark told a congressional committee investigating advertising for "dietless" reducing treatments. Dr. Kalb passed out samples of a brand made of skim milk and lemon juice, estimated that the manufacturers made "about a 400,000% profit" on the pills. Added Dr. Kalb relentlessly: Diet is the only way to reduce...
Impatient of the dull details of a law case or parliamentary debate he prefers to delegate the slogging staff work of poltics; he can skim a 300-page legal brief to his satisfaction in an hour and a half. Canadians say that he is their "first Prime Minister with a hearty laugh...
...fleet. From Maine to California's Newport-Balboa harbor, where a flotilla of 7,000 yachts worth $30 million lies at anchor, the nation's shorelines, lakes and waterways are dotted with boats; on the Great Lakes, the Detroit area alone counts 100,000; uncounted thousands more skim across the enormous man-made lakes formed by dam projects in the Tennessee Valley, the Colorado and Missouri Rivers. Says one deep-water sailor: "Thousands of farm families, who wouldn't know an auxiliary cutter from a lightship, are literally sailing over the bounding prairie -and loving every minute...
...keep fallout materials from being distributed evenly over the earth's surface. The U.S. Weather Bureau insists that winds and rainfalls give some areas (including the northern U.S.) a great deal more than their share of the global fallout. Biological concentration is even more disturbing. Grazing animals skim the fallout from large areas of grass, and it concentrates in their flesh and milk. Sea animals do the equivalent. Biologists fear that many such concentrating mechanisms may exist unsuspected. This is one reason why the U.S. Public Health Service is starting to inspect U.S. milk for undue radioactivity. West Germany...