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Word: lump (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, after they retire, a supplemental income kicks in, and the players can receive money in lump sums of $16 to $23 million each or take it in annual payments...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: No Match for Pretzels and Souvenir Pucks | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

Still, many women have found more substantial benefits at women's centers. Long Island Interior Designer Gloria Levine credits Dr. Budoff with saving her from a mastectomy after Levine discovered a lump in one breast: "She told me how to ask my oncologist to find out if I was a candidate for a lumpectomy." Another clinic patient, Delores Burton, reports that after a painful procedure, she was offered tea. "No doctor ever gave me a cup of tea before. It's a different kind of care." That combination of service and solicitude, notes Dr. Budoff, has earned the ultimate accolade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Total Care at the Ms. Mayo Clinics | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

Finally, after a cycle of contraction and re-expansion, the sun's surface gravity will be so low the outer layers will boil off into space, leaving behind only the naked core, a lump of matter about as big as the earth, but with 60% of the sun's original mass, glowing blue-hot at perhaps 120,000 degrees C. That stage will mark the end of the sun's active life; its nuclear fires will never again turn on. Slowly it will cool until it is first a white dwarf, still glowing, then a cold black dwarf, a cinder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fate of the Sun | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...feel confident we can sell a lot of tickets for this show and have our profits go to setting up a fund for future events and concerts so we wouldn't have to shell out this lump sum again," said council member Thomas D. Warren...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Council Supports Concert | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...seconds, returning with a new costume even more hilariously appropriate than the last. Sharkskin jackets with velvet collars, peg-leg pants with built-in bicycle clips, skirts floating on clouds of crinoline, striped loafers and white bucks, strapless cocktail dresses revealing white powdered shoulders. The hats along bring a lump to the throat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Theater: | 2/13/1987 | See Source »

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