Wendi had quick feet and managed to disrupt the creaming of Rupert.

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We would indeed be worried about Apple creaming monopoly profits off the top of that market for the next decade or so that those patents are valid.

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Under his leadership, Cosa Nostra seems to have withdrawn from its foreign activities to concentrate on crime in Sicily, notably extortion and the creaming-off of profits from public contracts.

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Also, with Internet as with some other new-technology businesses, the creation of temporary monopolies or near-monopolies that permit the creaming-off of high returns may be easier to achieve than it is in most traditional industries.

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