Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...magazine in 1988, Gwynne brings rare insight into the world of global finance. And he needs it to follow the tangled trail of tainted cash as it trundles through the world's banks. Of the current situation he says, "I think we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg of how much illegal Russian money moved through American banks...
These deaths, while relatively rare considering the 8 million students enrolled in four-year colleges, are only the tip of the iceberg. For every death, emergency rooms around college campuses see many students who recover from similar misadventures. One of every nine students reports experiencing an injury related to his or her drinking...
...shiny areas students can see are just the tip of the iceberg lettuce. Soon most undergraduate Houses will be renovated on the model of Eliot and Kirkland, designed by a collective effort at Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) and built on the cutting edge of institutional cooking...
...come most of us are about as familiar with it as we are with life on Mars? Steve Jurvetson, a partner in Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson who has invested in FastParts, an electronics trading exchange, and Sonnet Financial, an online foreign exchange, calls B2B "the iceberg waiting to emerge." "Most people," Jurvetson says, "understand the business-to-consumer market because they are consumers themselves. It's kind of like the Beardstown Ladies' investment protocol: use a product, come to understand it and then invest in it. With business-to-business, though, unless you are entrenched...
Ariel Dorfman holds the Walter Hines Page Chair at Duke University. His latest novel is The Nanny and the Iceberg...