Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million to 3,500 Alaska Natives who claimed losses as a result of the 1989 oil spill in Prince William Sound. This is the first time individuals have been awarded money in connection with the spill, but it may be just the tip of the liability iceberg for the multibillion-dollar corporation. Within days, a lawsuit filed by fishermen claiming $895 million from the company will be decided. What to watch for: a massive $15 billion claim for punitive damages against Exxon, likely to be brought by nearly everyone who claims to have been affected by the spill. The company...
...Jericho would be open to revision, not cemented at the 25-sq.-mi. area drawn on the maps. With that promise, the deal was sealed. But the public theatrics underscored how tentative is each step toward Israeli-Palestinian coexistence. The snafu in Cairo was only "the tip of the iceberg of problems that we shall have to overcome," said Rabin...
...letter from the officers is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, dear reader. Our miracle of literature goes on for another two pages...
...this is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak...
...began tracing batches of company blood distributed to at least 88 hospitals and four companies in Germany and abroad. Three cases of HIV have been attributed to tainted blood, but a prominent pharmacologist, Ulrich Moebius, warned there may be more. "This," he said, "is only the tip of the iceberg...