Another explanation is that insiders cream off profits before they hit the bottom line.
What would be so bad if we just skimmed a little cream off the top?
The Vietnamese government itself recently estimated that light-fingered bureaucrats cream off at least 20% of infrastructure spending.
Historically, ski companies have been content to be little more than lift operators (as they still are in Europe), allowing local businesses to cream off most of their potential income.
"It does seem to me to be reasonable to ask them not to 'cream off' the kids that are coming in from outside, by some kind of mechanism such as banding or a lottery, " Dr Hunter said.
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But once we had the machine, the prenuptial novelty of homemade ice cream quickly wore off.
The prescribed Midsummer foods of strawberries, herring, new potatoes and sour cream are flying off the shelves.
She artfully negotiated her scraper spoony thing around the ice cream and shaved off way more than two thirds, leaving me with the undernourished, poor cousin of what was once a giant gelato cone.
Still, the region's millions of struggling poor are likely to be better off even if, as usual, the rich skim off the cream.
It's that soccer in the U.S. among men, anyway draws only from the pool that remains after football, baseball and basketball skim off the cream.
Then he picks up an Oreo, delicately twists it apart, and licks off the white cream filling before returning the cookie to the tray, a satisfied look on his face.
"Apple's modus operandi to date has been to cream the high-end off each market, but as the company's grown it may now need to target more of the mainstream, " analysts at Evercore Partners said.
In the first half of 2004 ice cream and other frozen foods were off, too.
More explicit than "Daisy, " in naming Barry Goldwater as a terrifying figure who had voted against the nuclear-test-ban treaty, "Ice Cream" (like that other ad) combines images of angelic little girls one pulling petals off a flower, the other licking an ice-cream cone while a voiceover warns that "the stakes are too high" to vote for anyone but President Lyndon Johnson.
And, no, people are not objecting to a professional torturer sharing ice cream with their pet monkey during their time off.
Now again, I know that queue-jumping happens everywhere, and the ice-cream girl might have just been having an off day, and that none of these incidents prove a thing, but it did get me thinking.
Stay tuned for his favorite clothing lines, including shoes he wears both on and off the court, and perhaps even the specialty cream that relieved the pain from his ankle after a recent sprain.
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So off to the store, we went and got ice cream and hot fudge and syrup and all kinds of other things and came home.
He wore cream-colored linen jackets, drove a Jaguar and took his family yachting off the coast of Dalian, according to two of his friends.
Mr. Graves and I were sitting in the glass-roofed room just off his kitchen, which boasted an Alessi kettle, toaster, tray, cream set and pitcher a kind of Michael Graves product show.
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