Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There will be more tit-for-tat scenarios, more struggles for what is perceived as the high ground. One certain sticking point is the amount of money Diana will receive. The figure usually mentioned is $23 million, but whether that will come in a lump sum or an annual dole has yet to be haggled over. Last week the senior royals--the Queen and Prince Charles--attended the memorial ceremony for the Gulf War dead. The regal phalanx was secondary news as papers devoted pages to Diana's latest crisis. That sort of snub inspires the kind of resentment that...
...Creating a new "G.I. Bill" which would provide a lump sum voucher for $2500 for continuing college education...
...trip to Paris in the mid-1890s that confirmed his direction as an artist. Dissatisfied with Impressionism as an art of insubstantial surfaces, he immersed himself in dark tonal painting, based on Manet and Frans Hals. He wanted the image to be not a shimmer of light but a lump in the mind, given urgency by slashing brushstrokes and depth by strong contrast. He liked Hals' vulgarity and reflected it in his portraits, one of the most spectacular of which is in this show--Salome, 1909, a portrait of a dancer known as Mademoiselle Voclezca. Her long leg, thrust...
...late August, less than two months after she had signed with Health Net, Christy discovered a lump in her left breast...
...promised, President Clinton vetoed the sweeping G.O.P.-sponsored overhaul of the welfare system that would have given lump-sum federal grants and shifted basic responsibilities to the states. Clinton said the legislation came packaged with too many spending cuts and too few incentives to move people from welfare to work...