Word: lumps
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...mystical belief in “potential life” held by some bioethicists and abortion-obsessed politicians. The usual line of argument is that human embryos outside of a woman deserve protection as “potential” human beings. An apt analogy would be selling a lump of graphite for the price of a diamond because it has the potential (under extreme heat and pressure) to become a diamond. But by stirring up concern about human cloning, the Raelian controversy could catalyze restrictions on other types of cloning, all of which fall under the general name...
...student, was looking for a synthetic substitute for quinine, a cure for malaria. Perkin was at home, doing experiments infusing coal tar with hydrogen and oxygen?and had failed. Washing out his test tubes, he noticed a residue that resulted in a "strangely beautiful color"?mauve. Hidden inside a lump of coal tar, writes Finlay, was "the potential for thousands of colors." This is where most of our dyes come from...
...employees’ compensation includes a base salary, a lump sum for meeting their benchmarks and a performance bonus for exceeding them over a five-year period...
...says he went to WorldCom partly because "there's appeal to being a CEO," was not offered incentives to stick around at HP. In December 2001, Compaq's board amended his severance package so that if he resigned from the merged firm within a year, he would receive a lump-sum payment--worth a previously agreed-to $14 million--within 10 days of his departure. When he left, he also received $1.6 million as part of a loan-forgiveness plan. After the merger, his employment contract was not renegotiated to entice him to stay...
...That?s Grand as in Guignol. Subway Cinema?s last big series, ?Asian Films Are Go!!!?, featured a couple of hard-edged sex-and-violence Japanese entries. This time, though, nearly every movie is designed to leave a lump of revolt in your gut. Revolt and, if ITMFG gets to you, an aching premonition. For beyond the gore is the void. We are all facing death, these movies say, and when we smell its fetid breath we have only two choices. Laugh and fight, as Samo does. Or scream and fight, as Lily Chung does against her super-subhuman attacker...