Word: iceberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...field on the campus of Princeton University is an eerie-looking Dacron-covered dome that suggests a wayward spaceship. Inside is something that looks either like a miniature Matterhorn or perhaps a giant Sno-Cone wrapped in plastic. In fact, the mound is the tip of an iceberg. Beneath it, nestled into a 10-ft.-deep hole in the ground, is a thick heap of slowly melting ice. To its creator, Theodore Taylor, a nuclear physicist turned alternative-energy researcher, the pile of ice is proof that there are better and cheaper ways than air conditioning to cool people...
...response to political pressure exerted by the students of several years ago. But, it means no benefit for the Blacks of South Africa and no real sacrifice for the students at Harvard who have fought so hard for divestiture. And South frica is only the tip of the iceberg of sys tematic injustice that oppresses and impoverishes people throughout the word, while preserving the ungodly affluence of our own society. Until each of us defines and shapes a genuine personal commitment to make the world a better place than it is today, such "moral statements" as the sale...
Unfortunately, policing fraud and waste in the private sector lags far behind its more accessible public cousin, and the many inroads into it today just attack the tip of the iceberg. It is a rare occurence when private companies or corporations are hauled into court. Exceptions like Lockheed and AT&T of several years back cheer the little consumer but remain rarities...
...chemicals which are highly toxic and controlling the introduction of these chemicals into our environment." His report was supported by a study of 32 major chemical-contamination incidents that was conducted by the Library of Congress. The library's survey said these cases "represent the tip of an iceberg of truly unknown dimensions" and concluded that toxic chemicals "are so long lasting and pervasive in the environment that virtually the entire population of the nation, and indeed the world, carries some body burden of one or several of them...
...might ask, did the Navy decide to refloat the Titantic, lost to an iceberg in 1912 on its maiden voyage? The lesson of this movie is that the fewer questions of this sort you ask, the better off you are. If Twentieth-Century Fox had hired Jacques Cousteau to make this film, it probably would have been fascinating. But why film something fascinating when you have a $20 million budget? And anyways, every other movie has spies and sex and actors, right? So, to answer the question of motive, the writers concocted a plot that wastes most...