Word: lump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picked up from the Soviets was setting the limit on nuclear charges at 6,000. Yet the U.S. proposal applies the 6,000 figure only to warheads on strategic missiles (submarine ballistic missiles and land-based ICBMs) and on cruise missiles launched from planes. % The Soviets would like to lump gravity bombs and short-range attack- missile warheads into that category; the U.S. has a significant lead in these weapons...
...realize it may be unfair, even offensive, to lump all varieties of outdoorsy types (cowboys, farmers, horses) into one category. But as is often the case when I am unfair and offensive, I simply don't care...
...almost exclusively to corporations. Norwest Bank Minneapolis grants lines that typically total about $25,000 and can exceed $100,000. Norwest also offers lending programs for cars and boats that can cut monthly payments nearly in half. The loans run for several years and then come due in a lump sum. Automakers too are extending easier terms. Ford Motor Credit estimates that 45% of its 1985 lending has been for 60 months, rather than the 36-month period that was previously typical...
...ceremony was muted, a mixture of joy, relief and sadness. "I'll wait for a second until I swallow the lump in my throat," Reagan told the ex-hostages and 400 onlookers. "This isn't a time for speeches; it is a time for reunions and families coming together. There's only one thing to say, and I say it from the bottom of my heart in the name of all the people of our country: Welcome home...
General Dynamics responded that it had "no idea of the origin of the figures quoted." The Pentagon is undecided as to how it will recoup the money. Said a Pentagon spokesman: "We could continue to withhold overhead payments until the account is filled, or we could ask for a lump payment." The Northrop Corp., a competitor, last week suggested one form of punishment for General Dynamics: to share some of the Government contracts with it. Northrop offered to sell the Pentagon about 400 of its newly developed F-20s, sleek fighter jets it is having trouble marketing, for substantially less...