Other variants of fraud may use a “ skimming ” technique, where an electronic device is fitted over the ATM's card slot and which reads the information encoded into the magnetic strip on the back of the victim's card as it is inserted.

Eliot Weisman had already been convicted of skimming, the act of taking money before it has been accounted for taxation purposes, after a series of Sinatra performances at the Westchester Premier Theatre in 1976, eventually being sentenced to six years in prison for the offence.

When the wind gets above 8-10 knots ( typically 15 knots + for recreational equipment and depending on the size of sail and weight of sailer ) the board ceases to move through the water and instead planes on top of the water, skimming over the surface at much higher speeds.

Price skimming is a pricing strategy in which a marketer sets a relatively high price for a product or service at first, then lowers the price over time.

As a result, Nevada regulators turned to the Boyds for help following an investigation of skimming operations at the Stardust and Fremont casinos in the mid-1980s.

The properties were notorious at the time for their extensive skimming operations ; according to the FBI, anywhere from $ 7 million to $ 15 million in funds from the Stardust were diverted to organized crime figures between 1974 and 1976 alone.

Right whales feed mainly on copepods and other small invertebrates such as krill, pteropods, and larval barnacles, generally by slowly skimming through patches of concentrated prey at or below the ocean surface.

In Wisconsin, there are places where skimming is encouraged, and some businesses rely on it to attract customers, for example at Bauers Dam in Conover, Wisconsin.

Other places Yellow-rumped Warblers have been spotted foraging include picking at insects on washed-up seaweed at the beach, skimming insects from the surface of rivers and the ocean, picking them out of spiderwebs, and grabbing them off piles of manure.

* Tram route 55 ( West Coburg ): travels down Flemington Road and then into Royal Park at Abbotsford Street, just skimming the boundary of North Melbourne.

Its source is Orbach Lake, located on the grounds of the Pouch Camp, maintained by the Boy Scouts of America ; from there it enters the Greenbelt, crossing underneath the intersection of Manor Road and Rockland Avenue, whereupon it enters the Egbertville Ravine, then emerges from the ravine and flows along the east side of Lighthouse Hill, skimming the western edge of the Richmondtown neighborhood ( where bridges are necessary to cross it at several points, and creating dead-end streets at others ) and through Historic Richmond Town.

PPCs operate safely at heights ranging from a few feet off the ground ( while ground skimming, a popular use of the aircraft ) to altitudes as high as 18, 000 + feet ( 5. 5 km ).

Clarke, admitting that the project was for herself and not the reader, " clung to this method " " because I felt that if I went back and started at the beginning, novel would lack depth, and I would just be skimming the surface of what I could do.

A worker at a tofu skin factory skimming the skin from small buckets and drying them

There could have been any number of reasons for the Greenbaums ' murders, including his alleged casino skimming, or the fact that he'd hired Outfit " Rat " Willie Bioff to work at one of the casinos following the " Rat's " betrayal of his Outfit loyalities.

They feed usually in large flocks, flying low over the water surface with the lower mandible skimming the water ( in order of importance ) for small fish, insects, crustaceans and molluscs caught by touch by day or especially at night.

Legal actions began from a number of Japanese insurance companies at the start of 2002 towards the directors of Fortress Re, alleging Fortress Re had misrepresented losses and performed other improper acts, including Sabbah and his partner " amassing personal fortunes " by skimming money off the top from Sompo ’ s funds.

Witton and Naish noted that most azhdarchid remains are found in inland deposits far from seas or other large bodies of water required for skimming.

She disagreed with Schultz most notably on the Iran-Contra affair, in which she supported skimming money off arms sales to fund the Contras.

In 1947, the crime families ordered the murder of Siegel due to his mismanagement of the Flamingo Hotel, most likely because Siegel or his girlfriend Virginia Hill was skimming money.

Some claim that speed reading involves skipping text ( exactly as has been measured during studies on skimming ), whereas other speed reading promoters claim that all of the text is processed, but with some or most becoming subconsciously processed.

W250BC FM 97. 9 is a broadcast translator licensed to Riverdale, although its original 6 watts reached only Morrow, Lake City, most of Jonesboro, and part of Forest Park, skimming only the eastern edge of Riverdale.

Imports consisted of various marine products, the most important of which was " grease ", the oil extracted from eulachons ( also known as " candlefish ") by allowing them to rot, adding boiling water, and skimming off the oil.

At other times, skimming is also a cost-efficient method to remove most of the oil before using membrane filters and chemical processes.

: Although " historical " Newtonian arguments may lead to the gravitational deflection of light ( Newton, Cavendish, Soldner ), general relativity predicts twice as much deflection in a lightbeam skimming the Sun.

It is a barely controlled skimming of the ground.

If you drive greater distances than that, you'll just be skimming the surface and will never discover the enchantment, fascination and beauty which lured you in the first place to explore the hinterlands.

Often, threading through the overcast, he was forced to fly close to the ground by a low ceiling, skimming above the Winooski or the White River along the line of the broken railroad.

Hoxby found that the effects of vouchers in Milwaukee and of charter schools in Arizona and Michigan on nearby public schools forced to compete made greater test score gains than schools not faced with such competition ( see Hoxby, 2001 ), and that the so-called effect of cream skimming did not exist in any of the voucher districts examined.

They argue that some, if not all, of the cost difference between public and private schools comes from a process known as cream skimming — selecting only those students that belong to a preferred economic, religious, or ethnic group — rather than from differences in administration.

In 2007, Norwegian authorities sentenced 6 LTTE members for skimming more than 5. 3 million Norwegian kroner in a similar credit card scam.

Additionally, the beak, jaw, and neck anatomy are unlike those of any known skimming animal.

Tolkien, however, is not simply skimming historical sources for effect: linguistic styles, especially the relationship between the modern and ancient, has been seen to be one of the major themes explored by the story.

Water skiing is a sport in which an individual is typically pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface.

A clearer broth is achieved by skimming the film of congealed fat off the top of the soup as it is cooking, first bringing the chicken to boil from a pot of cold water and discarding the water before continuing, or straining it through a strainer or cheesecloth.

Chicken soup can be a relatively low fat food: fat can be removed by chilling the soup after cooking and skimming the layer of congealed fat from the top.

Most leading vehicle manufacturers recommend brake disc skimming ( US: turning ) as a solution for lateral run-out, vibration issues and brake noises.

Ashland Refining Company purchased the plant in 1924, when it was little more than a skimming operation from which a few products were distilled.

* 1966-( June 29 ) Pilot James P. Scott crash-lands his Piper Aztec twin-engine plane on front lawn of Burton Avenue home after losing an engine and skimming the top of a tree, which softened his landing.

* Ian Posgate, one of Lloyd's leading underwriters, was charged with skimming money from investors and secretly trying to buy a Swiss bank ; he was later acquitted.

Porco blacks out again and recovers skimming above the sea.

Davis's associate recalled Sinatra's people skimming the top of the revenues from the concerts, as well as stuffing envelopes full of cash into suitcases after the performances.

Embezzling should not be confused with skimming which is under-reporting income and pocketing the difference.