Word: lumping
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...borders, pleaded first that no announcement of any kind be made for 100 days, or if that were not possible, for at least another 60 days. Nixon heard the chiefs out at a luncheon meeting in the Pentagon. Then, only a few hours before his telecast, he decided to lump the 50,000 increment and the 100,000 increment together, stretching the deadline from eight months to twelve...
...Janice Bernstein is a disillusioned idealist. "People like myself lived in a dream world that we could have a good, integrated neighborhood," she says. "Now I have to drive my boy to a movie he's walked to all his life. It's wrong to lump them all together. My black neighbors on the street are very nice. Everyone's out with a broom. They want us to stay, but it's heartbreaking because we're going to lose each other. You can't force integration down people's throats, because it hasn...
Liza folds her mouth around those sugar-lump teeth and winds up into a giggle that moves from the top of her head right straight down to her toes. "Yeah-I'm happy," she says, the big smile looped securely in place. "But then, if I'm feeling anything, I figure-WHEW! -I'm here! I exist...
...mind being called a "Modern Malthus" [Jan. 12]. Unlimited population growth will indeed present an overwhelming challenge to environmental quality. Unfortunately, your article implies that the nation cannot afford to combat water pollution now. But the total costs you derive lump together highest priority and lowest priority items; together they represent the accumulated debt for past neglect and apathy-with interest...
...training such a child to develop fully the use of his limited powers. Last week the German manufacturers of thalidomide, the most disastrous drug in medical history, recognized that fact. As compensation to the parents of all the thalidomide-deformed children surviving in West Germany, they offered a lump-sum settlement totaling 100 million marks ($27.3 million...