Word: lumping
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...Cachan feels (rightly so) that it is inappropriate to lump all "Latinos" together under that label, then he shouldn't use similar terms for other groups. Clare A. Sammells...
...mummies, was intrigued by one woman he judged to have been 40 to 45 years old, an advanced age for her society. But he expected to find little else remarkable because the body was so poorly preserved. To his surprise, when he opened the chest, he found a lump on the lung and another two in the lymph nodes -- a common sign of TB infection...
...Whatever lump of decisionmaking grey matter these two had in their whiny keisters has long ago evaporated...
What isn't discussed, however, is the downward pressure on grades exerted by grade-inflation paranoia. "The B+ is kind of caught between the crossfire of this," Lump says. "It's used in response to upward grade inflation, and it's also used in grade deflation. You're trying to deflate grades, so you give someone a B+. You know they're doing work that in another class might get them an A or an A-, [but] you can get away with that. Whereas if you give them, like, a B, they might seriously start to think they'd been...
...Jain '94, a government concentrator, concurs with Lump. She recalls the semester when she took a course in political philosophy taught by Mansfield, and claims, "In that class, TF's gave a lot more B+'s than A-'s when A-'s were deserved...