Word: lumping
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That is one reason it has been possible for hospitals to reach a point of crisis without most of us knowing how it happened. When your child is lying on a stretcher, or your spouse is worrying about a lump, there is no time to learn about how these places work. You just want them to take care of you. One of the great democratic privileges of American society is the premise that all people have a right to the best possible care, regardless of whether they have the means to pay for it; the law requires hospitals to treat...
...Dean of Student's Office has also agreed to a one-year trial policy of granting organizations lump-sum checks at the start of the year, instead of reimbursing separate purchases, Cooke said...
Tucked inside the rows of uneven graves at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, it is easy to believe that the unofficial war in Northern Ireland between Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries continues. Two boys visit a lump of plastic flowers that passes as a fresh grave, the caretaker sweeps a traveled path past still shining headstones marked "IRA Volunteer" and the police surveillance camera hovers atop a thin gray tower across the Falls Road, watching shadowy forms dart among the monuments...
...weeks ago. It has yet to emerge. And while some have been dealing with the possible end of our current good-times era by talking their Wall Street buddies down from the window ledges, or by convincing Mom & Dad that it wasn't so bad to throw a big lump of cash into the stock market the day before the slide began, and would they please shut off the Mercedes and come out of the garage, I have taken a different mindset. I have been busy contemplating the social fallout from the demise of the present boom period, wondering...
When he admitted that he had misled people, even his wife, his voice caught. For the first time, I felt his pain rather than his anger, and I fought the lump in my throat. I wanted more...