Word: lumped
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...athletes themselves. "This group of athletes is the legacy of China's economic development," Liu Mingyu, deputy director of Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau told the Beijing News. "I feel for them, but there is nothing we can do to help all of them." The 2003 law stipulates that "a lump sum compensation is to be given to those athletes who choose to find jobs on their own." But that amount is usually not big enough to help an athlete with injuries and without an education...
What is your opinion on our latest immigration woes along the border? -Mario Quintero in Indio, Calif.You can't lump everything into one piece of legislation, I don't think. I think we are a country of immigrants and I see hardworking people every day who come here and I believe it to be our greatest asset. So you better not be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Just look at who is driving cabs and who is in the kitchens. It is the latest people who got here, you know? It's the entry-level jobs...
...culture, this is the hate that dare not speak its name. Consider as evidence the best-seller lists, which are crowded with odes to mutts by philosophers and poets. Admitting to anything less than worshipping my dog will lump me with--heaven forfend--the cat people. The cult of the caninophiles does not allow for defection. Dog lovers will remind me that he has given me many things, not least among them undying loyalty. I know that. I even admit he has helped equip me for the trials of parenthood, not least among them the manual handling...
Gettelfinger has long argued that the best way to cut automakers' costs without shafting workers would be to move to government-run universal health care. Another possibility, pioneered last year by tiremaker Goodyear: paying the union a lump sum to take over retiree health care for good. But health-care reform won't come for a couple of years, if ever, and for automakers that lump sum would be staggering. So it's hard to see how Detroit can avoid a major showdown this summer. Road Race. The Fight for the U.S. Market [This article contains a complex diagram. Please...
...first woman chief of the White House speechwriting office. Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow Chriss A. Winston, President George H. W. Bush’s onetime head speechwriter, took a few dozen undergraduates on a two-hour tutorial about how to “take a colorless, passionless, humorless lump of words and somehow mold that into a speech that has life and lift.” Having a clear core message—“preferably one with news value”—and conducting thorough research are keys to a successful speech, Winston said...