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...economy type; the employees were demanding offices with walls and, gasp, doors. The manager of the first group was "worried," says Sims, "that 'if I force them too much, they'll go down the road.'" The founder of the second company, Sims reports, felt staffers could "'like it or lump...
...percent to 55 percent. But under an electoral system, unlike a straight popular system, this sort of majority vote inflation has no effect on the presidential election as a whole, because electoral votes are not awarded as a proportion of the state's vote totals but in a lump-sum. The Electoral College prevents "one bad apple" from spoiling the harvest by splitting the harvest into different baskets, ensuring the integrity of the election...
...Paper or plastic. Gore didn't want to choose, each option carrying its own environmental stigma. "Paper, just because I like the paper," he said, after grimacing theatrically. But he had a third way of his own. "How about this - you just lump it up in your arms and take it like that...
HEDGE FOR LESS Hedge funds are reserved for multimillionaires. They offer high rewards--and scary risks. Now the bar is being lowered for "qualified investors" with minimum stakes as low as a mere $125,000. Brokerages, including Paine Webber and Merrill Lynch, are among the "alternative investment" providers that lump these puny stakes together and place them in selected funds. Why? The brokers charge hefty fees--on top of a fund's own charges...
This year, with two senior holdovers from that NCAA team, a junior transfer from North Carolina and a plethora of freshmen and sophomores, Delaney-Smith had a deep and tall--but relatively fresh--lump of clay from which to mold a team...