Word: lumping
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...silver medalist Paul Wylie, agrees: "It helps that she knows the whole country is behind her." She has only to enter her family's home in Stoneham, Massachusetts, for reassurance. The dining room is filled with tubs of unopened mail. Her close family has always been her mainstay, the lump of gold Harding never had. But the struggle to vault their daughter to the top has been tough on the Kerrigans; father Dan is a welder, mother Brenda is legally blind. When Nancy began lessons, the family thought she might follow the path of her young coach, Theresa Martin...
Harvard needs to be more aggressive in exploring options. The University of Chicago, for example, offers a lump-sum payment that encourages retirement. The legal robustness of this plan has not yet been tested, but perhaps Harvard should try it until a better alternative can be found...
...Chicago solution, a lump-sum payment to encourage early retirement, is not the best solution of Harvard and may be illegal, says McCarthy...
Almost all of the cosmic matter that survives to hit the Earth is nothing more than a curiosity. A mysterious lump of iron is found in a cornfield; a twenty-two pound rock appears amid the demolished trunk of a car in Peekskill, New York just last year. The Harvard Geological Museum contains dozens of examples, carefully classified by composition, ranging from a few ounces to over a hundred pounds...
...also lost a child, her firstborn, in an accident. For decades she has told no one, not even her other children, and she cannot bring herself to tell Caldwell's character at the moment when it would most comfort both of them. She does at last acknowledge the undiagnosed lump growing in her breast and the not-so-secret mistress installed by her husband in a pricey condominium. The play is about the women's coping, not their chaos...