Word: lumping
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...fortunate bunch, all men, ranging in age from twentysomething to fiftysomething, opted for an upfront lump sum of $161.5 million rather than the jackpot total spread out in payments over 25 years. That entitles each of them to $12.4 million pretax dollars--or the equivalent of a try-harder-next-year Christmas bonus for high-level bankers at Goldman Sachs. All the Lucky 13 remained anonymous, except John Jarrell, a 34-year-old father of three, who told reporters that one of his first purchases will be a Harley-Davidson for his wife that will match...
...discovered that remembering names is not a strong point of mine. I tend to lump vaguely familiar faces into broad mental categories which have titles like "people who seem as if they may be named James." This inadequacy in my memory was a persistent problem during the past school year when I taught a class of fifth graders non-violent conflict resolution skills with the organization Peace Games, Inc. Those ten-and eleven-year-olds in Dorchester were an energetic and cynical audience. They were able to answer leading questions about safety and respect with enough ease and assurance...
Barbara Bradfield, 55, is living proof that this can work. A teacher turned homemaker in La Canada Flintridge, Calif., Bradfield is one of the lucky cancer patients who have already benefited from the new generation of gene-based treatments. She was 47 years old when she discovered a large lump in her breast. Tests showed that the malignancy had spread to her lymph nodes. Bradfield got the works: a double mastectomy and six months of chemotherapy, followed by radiation and then more chemo. It bought her 18 months of symptom-free life. Then one hot August night, she recalls...
That David vs. Goliath matchup otherwise known as the U.S. government vs. Microsoft rages in Washington, which brings a lump to the Couch Potato?s throat. Forget Bill v. Janet -- we?re strictly old school here, and this reminds us of cinema?s epic battle -- the one between Godzilla and a succession of plucky residents of Japan...
...There is a really wide array of Latinas at this school," added second year HLS student Betsy A. Miller. "Some people are first generation, some are not, some people are privileged, others are not. The Latina group is an interesting composite of people [but] you can't just lump all these people together...