Sentences with word «lumper»

The account of the players and theories in the field of human evolution does highlight how much of the debate involves mere name games, with lumpers and splitters arguing ad nauseam about the same few specimens widely scattered through space and time.

But it had been a haven for old folks, retired lumpers and clerks, invalid pensioners, transients, drunks and welfare mothers.

John Bogle and other lumpers warn us that it's unlikely that a typical investor will stick with a strategy that doesn't work as expected for 10 years or longer, and that abandoning the bets on small - cap or value stocks after an extended period of underperformance will reduce the investor's long - term returns relative to simply investing in the total stock market.

One of the pre-eminent lumpers is John Bogle, founder of Vanguard, and creator of the first retail index fund.

If you don't know what «diversifying beyond total market funds» means, see my blog post Lumpers vs. Splitters.

Consumer credit counseling in one form or another has been around as debt proraters, debt lumpers, or debt consolidators since the late 1930s.

No, matey, that be fer the lace and waistcoat gentry, an'the lords o» the Admiralty an» such - like luckless landlocked lumpers, wi» their clerks an'their cubicles an'their quills an'their copiers.

Lamberth, he says, is «a lumper, not a splitter.»

Are you a lumper or a splitter?

Palaeontologists fall into one of two camps when it comes to naming species, «lumpers» and «splitters».

And «lumpers,» who load and unload freight.

One of the lumpers» counter-arguments to slicing and dicing is that it is betting that small - cap and value stocks will outperform the total stock market in the future, and that most of the excess returns for the small - cap and value asset classes were generated during a few relatively short periods in the past.

No one knows whether the lumpers or the splitters will do better over the next 20, 30 or 40 years.

The authors of the books in my recommended book list include both lumpers and splitters.

«Be a splitter and not a lumper».

Yes, you can train a dog new tricks and many elderly dogs can be trained, but consider that at this age, some dogs may be a bit slower to follow commands and they may have a harder time coping with certain situation, so the golden rule to be a splitter and not a lumper comes particularly handy here.

Be a splitter, not a lumper, they say.

The thought processes behind the exhibition grew out of Splitters and Lumpers, a series of photographs by Liz Orton of as - yet unclassified plant specimens taken in the herbarium at Kew Gardens.