Word: iceberg
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...other words, those people now recognized to suffer from the disease are only the tip of the iceberg. Although these statistics estimate a large population of people carrying the virus, at the present time there are no known cases of AIDS transmission by casual contact. This fact becomes significant in light of the countless hours of contact between health care workers and AIDS patients, especially those millions of person-hours of contact before doctors understood the viral nature of the disease and thus its possible dangers...
...always been a hard worker," says Sheehan. And, after looking at Dushay's high school accomplishments, "I knew that was only the tip of the iceberg...
Regarding seven immunized witnesses and several slandered bystanders, exhibits from a cocaine trial that seems to have been conducted on an iceberg tip in Pittsburgh, Ueberroth has been straining under what he termed a "great demand to do something Landis-like." Maybe to reassure the players of his sympathy, maybe to indicate that it has limits, he found a temperate quote from baseball's original commissioner, whose swift justice expelled the 1919 "Black Sox" fixers. "I want every player to feel I stand behind him," Judge Landis had asserted, and here Ueberroth's voice acquired an edge, "so long...
...matter what the root of sexual harassment at Harvard may be, academics agree that the problem is probably more widespread among other colleges than it would appear. Says Princeton's Danielson: "It's probably the tip of the iceberg, and it's hard to deal with icebergs when you can hardly see the tip."CrimsonIan M. RoseDuring the first week of classes, government graduate student Elaine Swift distributed handouts in front of Professor Jorge Dominguez's class describing the background on the Dominguez harassment case...
...unsinkable Titanic had received and dismissed warnings about icebergs, according to Walter Lord's celebrated account, A Night to Remember. She was invulnerable if as many as four of her watertight compartments were flooded. But the 300-ft. gash inflicted by the iceberg inundated five compartments. Water poured into the mail room and swirled knee deep around the postal workers as they tried to haul sacks of mail to a higher deck. When word of the leaks reached the bridge, somebody asked Captain Edward J. Smith whether he thought the ship was seriously damaged. He paused, then slowly said...