Word: skimmer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will also contribute a boat equipped with a skimmer to collect trash, as well as the assistance of a graduate student with environmental expertise, said Paul Parravano, codirector of government and community relations...
...delectable pink skimmer. a sinuous little suit. A shiver of cocktail chiffon. An international parade of pretty clothes...
...Meyer Lansky, a money skimmer who stood barely 5 1/2 ft. tall in elevator shoes, get so notorious? Partly because of the company he kept, and partly because the temptation to overestimate another person's wealth and power can be irresistible, especially when exaggeration provides a dramatic contrast to appearances. A low profile can attract as much attention as a high...
...accident. Nozzles, hoses and pumps for fire-fighting-foam equipment had to be air shipped from the Netherlands. This took two days. Some oil-containment equipment was flown from London. Experts and other gear came from Alaska and Seattle. Mexico was asked to send a huge oil-gobbling skimmer. And while the Rotterdam firm hired Texas boats and seamen to help out, a French company, which owned the oil cargo, recruited cleanup crews in Louisiana. With considerable understatement, Linda Maraniss, regional director of the Center for Marine Conservation, observed, "There was a general confusion about where the equipment...