Word: lumping
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...Hollywood, and the experts have declared the winners and losers of the weekend box office, for which the celebrity contenders were Jim Carrey in Disney's A Christmas Carol, George Clooney in The Men Who Stare at Goats and Cameron Diaz in The Box. Headline in The Wrap: "$31M Lump of Coal for 'Christmas Carol'." And from Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood: "Happy Holidays? Not for Stars: Carrey, Clooney, & Cameron Open Soft This Weekend." Meanwhile, Variety trumpeted that "'Precious' finds special place at box office...
...pushed one nudge after another, from simplified financial-aid forms after studies showed they could increase college-attendance rates to automatic savings plans for small businesses. It even doled out our payroll-tax cuts in the stimulus bill by decreasing our weekly withholding rather than cutting us big lump-sum checks, because the research suggested we'd be less likely to notice it and more likely to spend...
According to Dershowitz, Borukhova’s salary could not possibly have allowed her to pay Mallayev such a large lump...
...Cole Act provides $80,000 for each year of wrongful incarceration and adds free college tuition, plus financial and personal counseling. Unlike past lump-sum payments, the new compensation will be paid out in a mix of monthly payments, with an upfront lump sum and an annuity that can be passed on through a recipient's estate. The new law also sets up an investigative panel, the Tim Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions. (Read about how the tide is shifting against the death penalty...
...role of Mrs. Claus is played by First Lady Rosario Murillo, who doesn't waste much time knitting stocking caps, but is terribly efficient at keeping the elves in line while Santa naps. Most Sandinistas know the best way to avoid the proverbial lump of coal in their stockings is to stay on Murillo's "nice list," which is more exclusive than her husband's. As the head of government propaganda, Murillo is also the one in charge of the Christmas decorations. (Read a story about the Ortega sex scandal...