Word: skim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D's. Consider C- a failure.) Why? Not became they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...reason is that milk has had run-ins with the health police. An 8-oz. glass of whole milk provides 30% of the daily requirement of calcium, but it contains about 150 calories and 8 g of fat (skim milk: 80 calories and .04 g of fat). The government recommends that adults consume no more than 65 g of fat daily. Now nutritionists are claiming that milk has got a bad rap and that the U.S. has become a calcium-challenged nation...
...decamped with the 20-year-old assistant, the woman left behind got to keep the house, the friends, the country club and the moral high ground. She could also count on the solidarity of first wives--without a club--who would shun the new woman for moving in to skim off the gravy years...
...toggle switch. He seems to hit a baseball on the dead run. Once in motion, he wobbles along, elbows flying, hips swaying, shoulders rocking--creating the illusion that he will fly to pieces with every stride. But once he gains momentum, his shoulders come to order and his feet skim along like flying fish. He is not only jackrabbit fast, but about one thought and two steps ahead of every base-runner in the business. He beats out bunts, stretches singles into doubles. Once Jackie made second on a base-on-balls; he saw that the catcher had lost...
...upstart company can skim off the most profitable segment of a market by a providing services only to large companies. Just as cherrypicking insurance companies take advantage of more socially responsible guarantors of health care, "competitive access providers" will be undermining the community minded practices of regulated monopolies...