Word: lumping
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More than a billion miles away, just beyond Saturn's orbit, the lump of icy debris is only dimly lighted by the sun and distant stars. Even the big Palomar mirror could not have found it without a highly sensitive silicon-chip light detector called a charge-coupled device (CCD), used in place of a photographic plate. When the comet approaches for its hairpin swing around the sun in 1986, solar radiation will boil off volatile material, creating a glowing head and characteristic tail and perhaps another heavenly spectacle...
...could. Soon she and her parents will also collect $1.2 million, of which $650,000 will go to their lawyer. The $122 million package, agreed to by both sides, is known as a structured settlement, and it offers something for everyone. The plaintiff escapes the risk of mismanaging a lump-sum payment and owes no taxes on the annuities. The defendant, or his insurer, ends up paying relatively modest amounts if, as often happens, the plaintiff dies early. And such settlements sound so generous. Actually, Anna's potential $122 million is equivalent to a properly managed trust fund...
...feet never touched the ground. So when she suffered a stroke last week that not only ravaged her brain but resulted in a car crash that mangled her body and seriously injured her daughter, it was almost as though some grand, cosmic accountant was exacting from her, in one lump sum, all the dues she never before had to pay. All along she had seemed exempt from the routine pains and troubles that plague the lives of ordinary folk. And then, in one swift and terrifying moment, Princess Grace fell to Earth...
...children. More than ever he believes that they are why he is in government and that they are at the heart of what this nation craves: sound individual values, family solidity, strong neighborhoods, one nation under God. At the Air Force Academy graduation in May, he got a lump in his throat. The young people were going off with unrestrained joy to serve the nation. Their parents sent them with love and deep pride. This is no corny illusion in Bush's view. It is more of America than anything else...
...Chichón volcano came abruptly to life in late March and early April after more than a century, it killed 187 people, forced thousands from their homes and created havoc over a wide area of Mexico. Since then, 3,721-ft. El Chichón (The Lump) has simmered down, giving off only occasional blasts of steamy vapor. But the mountain continues to be an object of intense scientific concern. Though the initial blowup was relatively small. El Chichón pumped so much dust and debris into the upper atmosphere-perhaps more than any other volcano since...