Word: lumping
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...seldom fit the stereotype of the obsessive sportsman, let alone the boneheaded fast bowler. Raised on a sheep and wheat farm, a straight-A student through school in Narromine, in northwestern New South Wales, McGrath was set to become a carpenter until his talent for propelling a 5.5-ounce lump of cork, string and leather carried him to Sydney and beyond. As a cricketing tourist, he's shown an uncommon appreciation for the peculiar attractions of foreign lands; to his wife, Jane, he's the rock that's stood by her through her battle with breast cancer...
...exact model of Tut's skull, three forensic teams then reconstructed the face behind the famous golden mask. The process is documented in a National Geographic Channel special, King Tut's Final Secrets, airing May 29. The images also debunk the notion that Tut was murdered. The mysterious lump in the back of his skull, discovered in a 1968 X ray, was just a hardened clump of embalming resin...
...that dangerous. For example, it does not make sense to ban students from all 2 million square kilometers of Indonesian territory. Obviously, there are safe places and there are less safe places; it’s a big country. How unfair and unnecessary it would be to simply lump everything together...
...University of Pennsylvania, that team is called the Social Planning and Events Committee (SPEC), and its student members have full flexibility with their funds. Every year, the SPEC receives a lump sum of half a million dollars from the University, says senior Thomas P. Kurland, SPEC’s concert director. Kurland says $300,000 of that is spent on the spring weekend—10 times the amount the UC was ready to set aside for the Snoop Dogg concert...
Chrysler's workers will receive most of the items on their wish list. Current employees will get an immediate bonus of $2,120, plus a 2¼% raise that will bring Chrysler assemblers up to the wage of $13.34 an hour. Late next year Chrysler employees will get a 2¼% lump-sum bonus and in 1987 a wage boost of 3%. Chrysler's 10,000 Canadian workers, who settled earlier in the week, will receive less lucrative bonuses because their concessions during the bad years were smaller...