Word: lumping
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...those who have not been involved in "creative home financing" lately, a balloon mortgage includes a relatively low schedule of monthly payments, but then requires a large lump sum after a few years...
...away from localized religion. Many of the misconceptions about mainstream evangelism stem from a confusion of theological conservatism--the intensive concentration on the Bible as the source of religious views and sermons--with fundamentalism. Moehl says. While she is not sure of the historical origins of this tendency to lump all evangelists under a conservative label, "there are a lot of misconceptions about Southerners in general and about Southern Baptists...
This could doom the initiative. Reagan's request last year to lump many domestic programs into block grants, a much less ambitious plan than the current one to turn back responsibility and money to the states, foundered on the rocks of the committee system, where it encountered resistance from both parties. As Democrat Leon Panetta of California points out: "The committee chairmen, who are the fathers of these social programs, will not be at all eager to see them terminated...
After leaving the university, he develops a tumor on his neck. Without seeing a doctor he diagnoses the lump as the accumulation of "swallowed tears." It is confirmation that if a person suppresses his suffering, he will be devoured by the suffering buried within. When Zorn finally consults a physician, a more clinical diagnosis is offered: the growth is malignant. Cancer comes as something of a relief; the pain and suffering finally have a name...
...enact their own. The President's triumph was the latest skirmish in a seesaw struggle over spending that has gone on since the founding days of the Republic, even though Article I of the Constitution theoretically gives Congress primary power over the federal purse. The first Congresses appropriated lump sums that Presidents George Washington and John Adams and their Cabinets could spend as they wished. Later legislatures captured effective control of federal finances, but the pendulum swung back to the White House under a succession of strong-willed modern Presidents, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Nixon Administration haughtily...