Word: iceberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lorean probe involved undercover agents of the FBI working closely with DEA officers, investigators from the U.S. Customs Service and with local police in Los Angeles and Ventura, Calif. Predicted Assistant FBI Director Roger Young after De Lorean's arrest: "This is only the tip of the iceberg as far as cooperation is concerned." Praising President Reagan's proposal two weeks ago to set up joint federal task forces throughout the nation to snare big drug suppliers, Young declared: "We've got the Commander in Chief saying, 'Go get 'em, guys.' No one can back down from cooperating...
...became "a prisoner of my own excellence." With the help of his chum A.E. Hotchner, 62, whose concoctions are usually literary (Papa Heming way), the actor is marketing the dressing in supermarkets around the country. The bottle, adorned with Newman's visage and the glint of his Iceberg-blue eyes, is priced between $1.19 and $1.39. The profits, if any (some critics say the vinaigrette reeks of dehydrated onion and garlic), will go to tax-deductible charities and causes selected to Newman's taste...
...more important they continue to aver that the particular complaint of Ceasarian sections which affects only a small proportion of the Harvard affiliated women who use the facility is only the tip of the iceberg as fat as bad gynecologic practice is concerned...
Assuming that the more highly motivated college bound crowd is only the tip of the iceberg, educators have acknowledged grimly that virtually nothing is being taught in the vast majority of public high schools. Hence the "basic competency" movement, which, though designed to evaluate high schools by granting diplomas only if students pass a battery of publicly sponsored tests, is much , more severe in its immediate effects...
...professors and administrators, Harvard already seems an institution ill-equipped to deal with a matter like sexual harassment. Although Lewis has said that more than 25 women came to her this year alone with complaints of sexual harassment--and this is no doubt the tip of a much larger iceberg--each of these women is made to feel that she is the only one. Only when cases of sexual harassment are publicized and publicly condemned, will women know that this is something the College takes seriously--something women now have no way of knowing...