Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week India's Supreme Court unexpectedly announced a settlement of all claims against the chemical company at a price that surprised and angered many Indians. Union Carbide has agreed to pay the Indian government a lump sum of $470 million by March 23. The money will be distributed by a special commission. In exchange, India will drop all criminal charges against the company as well as against Anderson, who retired in 1986. "It's a fair and adequate settlement for the victims," said Michael Ciresi, an attorney who represented India in its suit against the firm...
...month for ten months. Though many clubs assign the pool by drawing lots, each $2,000 collection in this kind of su-su goes to the person who everyone agrees needs it most urgently. After ten rounds, each member has contributed ten $200 installments and received one lump-sum payment...
...discouraging at first glance, gussied up with enough faux-everything kitsch to make one wish for a machete to clear a path to a table. However, once one is seated, delights appear, marred only occasionally by a lax waiter or an overdone duck. There are sublimely puffy lump-crabmeat cakes and tender veal chops with morels. Not to be missed: profiteroles filled with foie gras. The kitchen also serves an original version of pot-au-feu for which the succulently moist, tarragon- scented chicken arrives with leeks and angel-hair pasta, not in the traditional bowl with soup...
Investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee are not so sure. In most offset programs, the company making the investment does so in installments, as funds are needed, rather than in the kind of lump sum that Northrop sent. In addition, the committee wonders why Northrop sent the money to a Hong Kong account instead of directly to Seoul...
Works like Ouranos are infused with a sense of primal material under the stress of becoming, a mass raising itself up into consciousness even as gravity drags it down. You think of Genesis and the lump of clay just on the point of turning into Adam (the first sculpture of all). A little less thought, less work, and they would only be lumps. Tucker had taken a long look at Rodin, and it shows everywhere on his bronzes. The heavings and incrustations of their skins are, in fact, exquisitely organized to carry the eye around the form and leave...