Word: lumped
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...easy enough to lump all dance music under the neat-to-fit category of "techno." Or "electronica," which according to reports is a sneaky term created by American record companies to avoid calling it "dance" music. Apparently record companies think Americans look down on music made for dancing. But then you go out for a night on the town, and with the Lansdowne St. clubs all proudly advertising their music allegiances for that particular night, your bluff is called...so here's The Crimson's helpful guide to dance music genres...
...Astrology for many, Kirshner believes, is a means of relieving themselves of responsibility for their lives. Not that he blames them. "I think the urge to believe things is very strong," he says, "You'd hate to think you're just a lump of atoms on the surface of the earth for one hundredth of the age of the universe, and that that's it. But you know, that...could be true...
EVACUATED. JERRI NIELSEN, 47, U.S. doctor who has been treating herself since July with chemotherapy for a lump in her breast; from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station; by the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing...
LAST CHANCE This is the last year you can use the "five-year-averaging" rule to lower the taxes on lump-sum distributions on retirement plans. Next year such distributions will be taxed as income or as a capital gain. A 10-year tax option will still be available but only to those born before 1936. These rules don't apply to an IRA or 403(b), and not everyone is eligible. Unless you need the cash immediately, you're better off rolling it over into...
...LUMP-SUM DISTRIBUTION...