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Scorched Earth; Officials at Hoffmann-La Roche, the Swiss-based company that owns Icmesa, have urged Italian authorities to destroy the factory, tear down houses, burn the surrounding vegetation and skim off a foot of topsoil over the entire area affected by the TCDD. Italian officials have not yet decided to adopt such a scorched-earth policy. But army troops have so far evacuated more than 700 people from villages near the plant, and authorities have ordered blood tests on some 15,000 people in the area. Officials are also taking some controversial steps to confine the effects...
...unfortunately, the division-leading Yankees will be in town Monday through Wednesday. How can they do this? Maybe it will suffice to skim Samuelson. It does not seem very important...
...that first-year Stanford students score in the 60-70 percentile range in nationwide tests of college freshmen reading skills. "At Stanford, that's low," explains LAC Director Michael McHargue. "People here don't know that anything below 90% exists." LAC-10 instructors teach students how to skim a chapter in a textbook for the important points and how to build up their vocabulary...
...even with the more formal procedures, the Sanitas allegation suggests that it is still possible for someone to "skim a little off the top" as a result of Harvard's contracting arrangements...
...hope she works hard, because when she's good, she's very good." Finally Parker climbed into the launch, the motorboat from which he scrutinizes his rowers, and chugged off to where the two fours were already gliding along. The rowing was smooth, steady, rhythmic, as the oars skimmed through the water and flipped up, over, back, skim, up, over, back. Broods of ducks, a few sculls, the Boston skyline, the beginnings of rush hour traffic, and a Coca Cola sign that flashed "7:32, 74 degrees," all passed by; the emerging sun sent gold glints off the State House...