Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been waiting for Mia outside her hotel, hoping to catch her as she wended her meditational way to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, her publicity-prone swami. One of the Yogi's henchmen intervened, an altercation ensued, and Mia teed off. The photographer came away with bruises and a lump, and the Indian press came away dubious about Mia's inner serenity...
What New York did, in 1948, was to lump every unit of public higher education in the state* into one vast multiversity. By the standards of the past, S.U.N.Y. hardly seems like a university at all. Instead of one central campus, it has 59: four major university centers (at Stony Brook, Buffalo, Binghamton and Albany), ten four-year colleges of arts and science, two medical centers, seven specialized colleges in such fields as forestry and labor relations, six two-year agricultural and technical schools, and 30 junior colleges...
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...back wages will be delivered in "a lump sum as soon as possible," John Butler, Harvard's chief negotiator, said. The percentages apply uniformly to the ten different wage scales included in the Labor and Maintenance groups...
Time consciousness also forced the University to break the traditional "lump sum tender" convention in which the architect first does all the designing and makes the final blueprints upon which construction contractors later make kids. The lowest bidder is then usually chosen. Instead, University officials commissioned the architect and the contractor simultaneously...