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Word: skimming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something profoundly satisfying about hearing a book read aloud. In some ways an audio book demands more concentration than a printed one. Reading allows freedom -- the freedom to proceed at one's own pace, to stop and savor a passage, to pause and reread or jump ahead and skim. With an audio book, the pace is steady and unyielding; if a moment's distraction causes you to miss a key passage, you can return to the exact place only with difficulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A Real Tape Turner | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...once you get here, you find just as many lazy people as you do motivated people. There are still the ones who sit in the back of the classroom, try not to participate in the class discussions, and barely skim by. Or sail by with flying colors...

Author: By Tiffany Kanotz, | Title: Welcome to Reality | 8/9/1994 | See Source »

Releasing the final report of a two-year corruption probe into the New York City police department, a special commission concluded that a "willfully blind" system of accountability in the nation's largest police force had permitted highly organized "crews" of rogue officers to deal drugs, skim money and terrorize residents. Despite pockets of corruption, the commission stressed, most N.Y.P.D. officers were honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week July 3 -9 | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

...originally conceived by Blue Cross 60 years ago, community rating aimed to spread the risk of medical costs by charging a single premium, regardless of age, gender, income or medical condition. Over the past two decades, however, "experience rating" has become more popular. It enables insurance companies to "cream skim" low-risk groups and offer them modest premiums, then "cherry pick" the people within that group who pose high health risks and either raise their policy costs or deny them coverage. The result is so unfair that 40 states have restricted or prohibited the practice. "What you end up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Premium Fits All? | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...randomly opened it up and came across an article entitled, "Canaday Must Be Destroyed," by Mike O'Shea '95. As a resident of Canaday and a hardcore fan of my dorm, I decided to skim through...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: A Place to Call Home | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

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