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...investigators. But last week the Texas oil-price scandal broke open a bit when a federal grand jury in Houston handed up criminal indictments charging two small oil companies and five of their executives with a multimillion-dollar rip-off "This is just the tip of the iceberg," said a delighted J.A. ("Tony") Canales, the U.S. Attorney in Houston. "This is not a one-shot deal. It's just the first case, and there will be others, maybe as soon as next month...
Marshall's Generalized Iceberg Theorem. Seven-eighths of everything can't be seen.−Anonymous...
...other football rituals have long been noted by professional and amateur behavioralists alike. But none have studied the subject more closely than Alan Dundes, an anthropologist at the University of California in Berkeley. In his view, fanny patting and centering the ball are only the tip of the gay iceberg. Writing in Western Folklore, Dundes says that the "unequivocal sexual symbolism of the game" makes it clear that football is a homosexual ceremony...
However the cost could continue to rise. Due to the victory the beer will continue to flow for some time in Campbell's H-entry suite. As roommate Kevin Noughton said last week, "This is only the tip of the iceberg of the political career of David B. Campbell...
Processed turkey, processed ham, processed cheese, iceberg lettuce, cole slaw and mayonnaise. Toothpicks hold all this between 3 slices of white bread minus crusts...