Word: lumped
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...Harvard students and employees will likely be eligible for a $100,000 lump-sum payment if they "become HIV positive" as a result of a University-related activity, officials said this week...
...dispute the horror of Rodney King's beating by four Los Angeles police officers last year. But assigning it a dollars-and-cents value has proved far more contentious. Last week King rejected the city council's first public offer -- a guaranteed $1.75 million, including a lump sum of $250,000 and a lifetime annuity of $75,000 -- to settle his lawsuit. The council, after a closed-door session, in turn spurned a settlement bid by King for $5.9 million. Next stop: the U.S. district court, where King's federal civil rights case will be tried...
...vagueness of the Clinton proposal has allowed the G.O.P. to lump it together with various congressional plans that lack, according to Clinton aides, the kind of cost controls that Clinton himself would insist upon. But the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Clinton health-care plan, such as it is, would require about $80 billion in new taxes. Clinton aides insist that there will be no payroll tax in their health proposal, which would be funded instead by direct government subsidies to cover those who are too poor to afford private health insurance. But they admit that despite their candidate...
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666) was known from childhood and, since his death, to art history as Guercino -- "the Squinter." Thus he joins Masaccio ("Tom the Lump") and Sodoma among the notable Italian painters who survive in pejorative nicknames. One flinches to think what this practice might have done to the self-esteem of artists in the late 20th century had it gone...
...year on limousines. A spin-off organization bought an apartment for Aramony's use and hired his son. Exposure of these abuses led to Aramony's sudden retirement. The head of the New York-area United Way division (pay: $341,000) also recently retired -- on a lump-sum pension of $3.3 million...