Word: lumping
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Contrary to de Silva's allegations, we did not "submit multiple applications in the hope of obtaining more money that if [we] were to request a single, lump-sum grant." As we told de Silva during phone interviews prior to publication of this article, we have always submitted separate applications in the past...
...entry met a shocking rebuff. It is a lump-in-the-throat spot about Mike Sewell, a youth born with Down's syndrome, who found a job and happiness at McDonald's. The crowd in the giant auditorium at Cannes greeted it with raucous boos and whistles. "This is the most vicious, cynical, jaded audience in the world," said Marcio Moreira, creative director of McCann-Erickson Worldwide. "They don't like to have their emotions manipulated...
...even just saving the 29 cents, look what happens if, say, you pay four $10 monthly bills in a lump -- the $10 you owe now, plus three additional early payments. As the table shows, on that first early payment, the $10 you tie up is "earning" about a 36% annualized rate of return. The second is earning about 18%, and the third -- $10 tied up for three months to save 29 cents in postage -- is earning an annualized...
Wreaking such havoc on the body is impossible without the help of local capillaries, the Harvard group found. If a tumor is unsuccessful in recruiting nearby blood vessels, it quickly starves, remaining a dormant and harmless lump of renegade cells surrounded by the body's normal cells...
...building -- a striped marble lump by Edward Larrabee Barnes, which looks like a consulate in some Middle Eastern emirate -- cost $60 million; the endowment fund is $38 million, a large but, for its purposes, insufficient amount. It is a tribute to his gall that Hammer managed to get Oxy to pay out such sums, when he owned less than 1% of Oxy stock, on the questionable ground that the museum would pump up the company's prestige. Oxy shareholders are suing for waste of corporate assets. The niece of Hammer's wife Frances, who died in 1989, is also suing...