Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear was where she could take this quasi-heraldic imagery if she was going to hold on to her roots in pictorial minimalism. One soon found out. Rothenberg clung to the human figure, presenting it as a collection of parts, signs and & fragments: an open mouth, a lump of head, or a set of sequential images of a reaching arm that seemed to stutter across the canvas in a condition of terminal insecurity. The work looked muffled, ineloquent and infrangibly sincere. There was an intriguing contrast between the toughness of her pictorial means and the anxiety they suggested...
Expository writing does not inspire such necessary confidence. I walked in there an innocent with faint dreams of being a writer and I slid out a quivering lump that grew queasy at the sight of a pencil. I wasn't alone in my shame--others in my section and in other sections found their illusions of talent dissolved into thin...
Sources close to the talks said the GM pact closely parallels the one that the U.A.W. and Ford reached in September. That contract gave Ford workers a 3% wage hike in the first year, along with 3% lump-sum payments in both the second and third years. Far more important to the U.A.W. was the issue of job security. The Ford deal imposed a moratorium on plant closings and barred layoffs for any reason other than a severe sales slump. From GM, the U.A.W. apparently received similar assurances about future employment levels, but in an important concession, the union will...
Many workers have had to give up cost of living allowances, or COLAs, a form of wage protection that spread widely during the high-inflation 1970s. Many corporations are seeking to replace regular pay raises with annual bonus systems. These lump-sum payments, common in executive circles, expand and contract with a company's profitability. The advantage for employers is that the bonuses cost less over the long haul because they do not compound year after year, as raises do. Last October, Boeing reached an agreement with its machinists that froze basic wages while granting annual bonuses that will average...
...lenders around the country, two consumer groups, the Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union, found a variety of other alleged abuses. Some lenders failed to disclose that low introductory, or "teaser," interest rates would later be increased. Others did not publicize the fact that their loans required large lump sums as final payments. Last month New York City Consumer Affairs Commissioner Angelo Aponte warned a dozen local banks that their ads "encourage frivolous spending at the risk of foreclosure...