Word: lumping
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...Children's mental illnesses vary widely and cannot be pigeonholed into neat categories. To avoid sticking themselves with the pin on a diagnostic label, many psychiatrists prefer to lump all juvenile mental patients under the cliche heading "emotionally disturbed...
...Laborites' censure motion roundly accused the government of "incompetence and neglect." The man chosen to lead the attack was But ler's opposite number: former Chancellor Hugh Gaitskell, 49, a brilliant Oxford don whose economic philosophy is so similar to Butler's own that Britons lump them together in a single word: Butskellism. Cold, handsome Hugh Gaitskell is tipped by insiders as Attlee's probable successor, and his followers were plainly expecting a rousing electoral tirade...
...like any other, they had formed themselves into the Ahmedabad Jain Temple Priests Trade Union. From temple committees they demanded: an $8 minimum monthly wage, one day off a week, seven days' paid sick leave a year, three weeks' paid vacation annually, and the payment of a lump sum to a priest when he retires, or to his family if he dies in harness...
...those days are gone. Our task now is to learn to enjoy plenty." The party executive's best proposal was a three-year study to shape policy on specific problems. "That's a fat lot of fire to take home to the boys," grumbled one delegate. "Lump of suet dough, that's what I call...
...cost is amortized and his profit made, title to the building goes to the Government. Advantages of the lease-purchase device are that it keeps a steady flow of new buildings coming into the federal system, smooths out peaks and valleys in federal spending caused by enormous lump-sum building appropriations. Moreover, while the contractor has title to the building used by the government, it is not federal property, hence stays on local tax rolls...