1.   He has been accused of skimming the cream off the economy.

2.   The cream is skimmed from the milk.

3.   It skimmed the cream of a larval crop bred in decaying trees and left the deeper work for lesser birds.

4.   The event, to be sailed off Port Washington, N.Y., has skimmed the cream off the Omega match-race rankings.

5.   The voucher movement would undercut public schools financially and skim cream from among students.

6.   While criticizing non-OPEC nations, OPEC members themselves have been producing far more than their stated targets to skim the cream of high prices.

7.   However, these MPs are typical pork-barrel politicians who skim the cream off the budgets allocated for rural projects.

8.   One reason corporate aviation is so safe is it can afford to skim the cream of the crop.