E-books used to get lumped in with the same science-fiction stuff as jetpacks and lunar colonies.

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But top prospects like SportsLine are clearly getting lumped with third-stringers these days.

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Stilwell owns 33% of DST and 90% of Janus, whose flashy managers want nothing to do with the parent and aren't happy about being lumped together with steady-as-you-go DST.

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And though Collective Soul have often been lumped together with such faceless post-grunge bands as Seven Mary Three, Third Eye Blind and Matchbox 20, the reviews for "Dosage" have been largely positive.

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So they end up pooling groups of people by such basic factors as age, occupation and postcode, which means that some low-risk customers are lumped in with risky ones and subsidise their cover.

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In common parlance and performance listings, exchange-traded notes are often lumped in with ETFs.

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Lumped together with lawyers and doctors in often-derogatory terms as "support staff, " and frequently worse, public affairs officers are institutionally dead last in the pecking order at most military commands.

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In a strongly worded decision issued last week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia reinstated a lawsuit on behalf of some 2, 600 plaintiffs in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana who say they weren't notified about deals that lumped their cases with lawsuits pursued by high-volume firms in the South.

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These businesses, despite representing some of the highest earning taxpayers in America, get lumped in with Al down at the hardware store simply because of the flow-through nature of their business structure.

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