Amaranth founder Nicholas Maounis is still overseeing the skeleton crew unwinding Amaranth's remaining positions.

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Even 3TC's skeleton crew of three expatriates who came to Kunming to study Chinese are paid nominal sums.

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With a skeleton crew, he documents the banal comedy of a book tour and takes unannounced side-trips to corporate offices.

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Like many technologically savvy startups, Dirk Vander Kooij's furniture-making company in the Netherlands needs only a skeleton crew four people.

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Five years ago, Apple had a relatively skeleton crew in China, with 50 to 75 people focused largely on retail and online stores, according to former employees.

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With only a minimum of electricity generated by diesel generators to run monitors, ventilators and other medically necessary equipment, a skeleton crew has kept watch over the hospital.

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While the strike at Cerro Verde has not had affected production as seriously as Grasberg, Freeport is working with a skeleton crew of workers which could eventually take its toll on production.

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These events are capable of bearing a different interpretation: that of a series of reactions, in which a skeleton foreign-policy crew responds to happenstance events in a way that reveals preferences, but stops short of laying out a clear new agenda.

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She suspects that a skeleton uncovered by a road construction crew is that of her late husband (and Owen's father), who supposedly drowned in a flood decades ago.

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