Word: lumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the opposition to the contract came from young union members who would not benefit as much as others from the lump-sum increases, Cassidy said...
...contract, approved in balloting at the Comelia Avenue Nursing Home, provides public works employees, hospital orderlies, clerk typists, and other members of Local 195, Independent Public Employees Association, pay raises of nearly 10 per cent and increases in lump-sum longevity payments...
Reagan managed to make all his usual criticisms of Jimmy Carter, liberalism and the welfare state without being shrill or strident. There was scarcely an echo of Barry Goldwater's like-it-or-lump-it 1964 campaign oratory, though many of the ideas were the same. He was pungent without being pugnacious. Big Government, he warned, is "never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us ... High taxes, we are told, are somehow good for us, as if, when Government spends our money...
Combine the Army and Air Force, and rename the new division the AFC. Lump the Marines and the Navy into the NFC. Have them play football all year--not the European kind, if you're on my wavelength...
...with shapes before congestion takes over. And as a rule, her shapes are marvelously clear and decisive, a dream geometry of arcs, circles, balls and triangles, alternating with rougher and more battered fragments of wood. In this variety of texture and profile, which runs from Platonic solid to inchoate lump, her formal system seems to suggest the layers of definition from which memory itself is composed...