Word: lumping
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...when you have all that down, you think you'll be prepared, and that when the ball flies towards you, you'll be poised to reach out and snatch that lump of cowhide and stitches in one hand, casually, maybe then uncaringly toss it back like some undersized fish. But when it's never happened before, and Mercker's fastball to Berry is fouled off, and you have but a second to react, calculate and react again...you lunge, desperately, with both hands, and when you catch it you're quickly grateful not to have been cascaded with a chorus...
...cool so detached it could give equal attention to soup cans and electric chairs. But Warhol's indifference was incomplete. There was never an artist more starstruck and money mad. Just three months after Woodstock, in November 1969, he published the first issue of Interview, his monthly that would lump together '40s screen goddesses, lustrous Europeans of vaguely aristocratic background and the very latest shoe designers. By virtue of the fact that Warhol had turned his placid gaze their way, the imprimatur of hip was attached to them...
Mary Stansel worked for only a month as assistant to the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But her severance agreement last November was generous: two lump sums totaling $50,000, six monthly payments averaging about $5,400 each and, if N.A.A.C.P. executive director Benjamin Chavis did not find her a job paying at least $80,000 a year, an additional $250,000. The out-of-court settlement between Chavis and Stansel had remained private and indeed virtually secret until Stansel decided to introduce it into court. Chavis, she said, had not found...
...know, salaried employees have neither the tenure protection of faculty members nor the union protection available to hourly workers. My friend was therefore compelled to accept the offer of a lump sum payment, and has promised to sign a release stating that she will not contest the settlement. Her case, as far as I am concerned, is closed. My effort now is not directed at redressing the injustice done to her, but on seeking public opinion support to persuade Harvard, for the benefit of other employees in a like situation, to revise its restrictive policy on method of payment, which...
Although Human Resources' present policy of lump sum payments is obviously the easiest and fastest way to close the books on an older staff member who is no longer needed or wanted, in my judgment it is in Harvard's unlighted self-interest to move to a policy that permits multi-year payments and doubles the benefit to the employee, at no added cost to Harvard, except the administrative expense involved...