In 2006, a woman in Chaddesden, Derbyshire reported a lump of ice about the size of three bags of sugar fell from the sky and narrowly missed her car.
There is something about a lump sum that makes people flip a switch in their brain and start a whole mental dreamscape about what they can spend it on.
You could be concerned about leaving them a lump sum gift because they might use it irresponsibly.
Still, there is good news for people whose credit scores are about as appealing as a lump of coal in a stocking on Christmas morning.
While we like to lump all charities together when we talk about them, the amount of funds raised and assets held from one charity to the next vary wildly.
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Just as it would be reductive to claim that all foreign writings about France are reductive, so you cannot lump all French intellectuals together as jargon-spouting frauds, an assumption that at times seems behind the approach of Messrs Sokal and Bricmont.
Prof Miles says the easiest way to think about a "helicopter drop" is as a lump sum temporary tax cut - or a one-off reverse poll tax - financed by new government bonds which are purchased by the Bank of England on the secondary market, but with all interest and redemption payments etc transferred back to the Treasury.
Former tenant John Masters said he was so concerned about safety breaches at the property, he left a lump hammer on a window sill in his room.
However, Andrew Moore, of Morebath Parish Council, said the parish was concerned about its impact as it was "in one big lump in the middle of the Devon countryside".
Also think about receiving your severance payment as salary continuation rather than a lump sum agreement.
He said Labour had told people concerned about the biggest peacetime migration to the UK to "like it or lump it" and that the public had been "ahead of us" on the issue.
"If I were a plan participant and I was planning to take a lump sum, I would pick up the phone and call H-R and ask about the plan funding status, " says Andrew Wozniak, an actuary at BNY Mellon Asset Management, which manages investments for dozens of large company pension plans.
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