Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bird is at her weakest in overstating the financial advantage of not going to college. She plays games with statistics, arguing that if a high school graduate invested the equivalent of four years' college costs in a lump sum in a savings bank and went to work, his lifetime income (including compound interest) would exceed the earnings of a college graduate. The greatest fallacy in that line of reasoning is the fact that high school seniors do not have the $25,000 or $30,000 representing their college costs in a lump sum to invest. Nonetheless, Bird is correct...
...hearing aid for a deaf left ear, a painful lump on his right kneecap diagnosed as Osgood-Schlatter's disease, a hiatal hernia and a limp-the result of a World War II shrapnel wound. He also has a history of alcoholism, and after his first marriage failed, he suffered a nervous breakdown...
...skin. Nor was Nolen impressed by the results of the operation. The surgeon held up the blob he had been concealing in his hand and told Nolen he had removed a tumor. Nolen, who has removed enough tumors to know what one looks like, recognized the tissue as a lump of fat, probably from a chicken...
When estimating the surplus for 1980, the optimists tend to lump the cartel countries together. But the populous nations (Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria) may register payments deficits in several years, while the lightly populated countries of the Persian Gulf will be building ever bigger surpluses. The Morgan Guaranty report concedes that in 1980, Saudi Arabia's surplus will bulge at $100 billion, by far the world's highest...
...there are a number of ways of deciding how you get it back, whether it is a credit on their April 15 [returns]; whether you actually turn around and send them a check predicated on their income tax for 1974; whether it is all in one lump; or whether it is two, three or four specific checks...