Pattern recognition is nothing more or less than the ability to lump like with like.
Dow Chemical, operating in the dull but brutal commodity-plastics market, now splits out and prices separately the add-on services that it once provided in a lump along with its products.
And part of what happens is that people get so frustrated with politics that they just get fed up and they kind of lump government together with politics.
Nonetheless, most older Koreans in America would merely lump him in with the rich kids from Seoul.
Healy said it was "absurd" to lump him in with those who "fell off the path of service" and were arrested.
Most of these have been point solutions that lump music in with photos and videos for delivery from computer "A" to television "B".
Alas, bond funds with lump-sum distributions like this are scarce.
However, voters may choose not to judge this episode on its own, but to lump it in with the petrol, the Dome, the feud, the sleaze, the retirement of the saintly Mo Mowlam and much else.
Caveat: Take all rumors of Google's entering this business or that with a lump of salt.
The problem with the lump-of-labour fallacy is that it is so hard to kill.
It seems Kafka is ready to lump Social TV data with Social TV apps.
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So if you want to retire soon with a lump sum, call your human resources department--and your Congressman.
Other countries replace the lump sum bidding process with a percentage of profits generated by the network spectrum.
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The jury heard that during the course of the evening, she saw Mr Turner enter the nightclub with a lump hammer.
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Six months later, Karmo returned with a lump that had doubled in size.
The survey also raises the question of what long-term effects will result from children forming an emotional bond with a lump of plastic.
Buffett plans to begin dishing out the stock next July, starting with a lump of 1.2 million shares, slowly followed by the rest.
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As for the rising wave of laws and regulations designed to combat meanness among students, they are likely to lump together minor slights with major offenses.
The police officers suffered mostly scrapes and bruises, although one female officer was hit in the knee with a lump of asphalt, the Reuters news agency reported.
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While most HECM reverse-mortgage options carry adjustable rates and offer a line of credit or annuity-like payouts over time, the sole fixed-rate HECM choice is available only with a lump-sum payout.
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"For folks that don't need all of the money up front, it's pretty hard to see how they are going to come out financially better with a lump sum, " she says.
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Do you agree or disagree that the current Medicare program should be changed to provide those eligible for Medicare with a lump sum amount of money they would use to buy healthcare insurance on the private market?
Many experts in the area believe that such situations will only become more common in the future, as more and more Americans will be retiring not with pensions, but with the lump sum distributions from their 401(k)s.
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Although history suggests you might do better diving into the market with a lump sum (because, over the very long haul, markets have gone up more than they've gone down), dollar-cost averaging has a lot of appeal these days.
In January, members of the engineering community reacted angrily to the decision to lump the engineering diploma with weaker qualifications, voicing concern that schools would no longer consider it worth offering as the effort would outweigh the return in the league tables.
Ryan recommended ending Medicare, the government health-insurance program for retirees, and replacing it with a system of direct payments to seniors, who could then buy private insurance. (The change would not affect current beneficiaries or the next decade of new ones.) He proposed ending Medicaid, the health-care program for the poor, and replacing it with a lump sum for states to use as they saw fit.
Now more drinkers in France will get to try the real thing, best blended with water and a lump of sugar to create an eminently sippable cocktail.
If you've had a run in with either of its siblings you'll feel immediately at home as this iteration carries the same design esthetic, the weight, the raised lump on the back side but with a notable speed bump in CPU's number crunching ability.
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