Word: iceberg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lynch (Hyperion; $60). When the "unsinkable" ocean liner went down on its maiden voyage in 1912, its story had scarcely begun. The entire epic is here, from the fatal encounter with an iceberg to the discovery of the sunken wreck in 1989. Ken Marschall's paintings imagine the past in careful, chilling detail...
Stempel's defenders portray him as a scapegoat for errors that GM's now militant directors did nothing to stop. "He became captain after the Titanic had already hit the iceberg," Shaiken says. A strapping 6-ft. 4-in. former college football tackle with a booming voice but a gentle nature, Stempel took a conciliatory approach toward downsizing the work force. When a United Auto Workers strike shut down 14 of GM's factories in August and September, Stempel agreed to add 900 jobs at two Lordstown, Ohio, plants where workers had complained about being shorthanded. Earlier, Stempel had signed...
...bulimia. Equally intriguing is the fact that the same drugs used to treat depression are effective against all these conditions and against panic attacks as well. Some researchers have therefore concluded that the diverse disorders may in fact be linked. "Depression may be only the tip of the iceberg of a family of dysfunctions," says James Hudson, a psychiatrist at Harvard...
...cuts are too hot for the air -- he has produced four gold- selling albums. His fans are mainly young males, but they range through all races and classes, and they can be found from his adopted hometown of Los Angeles to Harlem and Harvard -- where his 1989 album, The Iceberg Freedom of Speech, was No. 1 on the campus charts...
...these weapons form just the tip of the iceberg. Most negotiating is done in private sessions with deans and other officials, and professors are reluctant to talk about behind the scenes offers...