Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Distillers, which marketed thalidomide in Britain through a pharmaceutical subsidiary until 1961, has agreed to pay $12,500 to each set of parents in consideration of their suffering and expenses. A lump sum of $15 million will be distributed to 340 of the children who were not part of a 1968 settlement involving 58 children. In addition, $35 million will be paid into a charitable trust for all the children in seven yearly installments of $5,000,000. As a protection against possible erosion by inflation, there is an escalation clause that could increase each payment...
...Raphael. Dubuffet's art speaks directly to anyone who wants to abolish the humanist past-that area of art that insists that man is the flower of the universe and can, by force and subtlety of intellect, control it. His images assert the opposite: a nude becomes a lump of hairy pink clay with a pinhead, swagging numbles and a skin so gouged by fissures, cracks and graffiti that it is on the verge of turning into a landscape. The hierarchy of human to animal to vegetable to mineral is abolished; the popeyed homunculi who scurry like moles through...
Harvard officials are presently negotiating with the License Commission, Sennott said, and the "probable outcome will entail such a low fee on each license that the lump sum will not be prohibitive...
...Christ Almighty, you're a mess!" Reynolds quoted himself as saying when he saw Miles' cut lip, bloody nose and the lump on her forehead. "If I was not as mature as I am now, I would lay him out," referring to Whiting. Instead, Reynolds testified, he took her to his own room, where she stayed the night. Late the next morning, when Miles returned to her room-to get her birth control pills, she said-she found Whiting curled up in the bathroom...
...conspiracy" began last May, after the IRS decided that John Heck Jr., owner of the Heck Transfer and Storage Co., a small San Diego moving outfit, owed $9,500 in back taxes and penalties. Heck, 55, had been trying to come up with the lump-sum back payment. But after five months Internal Revenue grew impatient. Using their power to act without any court order, IRS agents simply seized six of Heck's trucks and some office equipment to satisfy the debt. Had Heck's company been a financially embarrassed major corporation, he might have been allowed...