Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...feel like we've moved an iceberg an inch...
...including many leaders of the African-American community—perceives the incident as demonstrative of the fact that our professed level of open-mindedness may be a façade for a deeper, more complex reality. Indeed, many claim that this incident is merely the tip of the iceberg, a highly visible example of a more widespread and insidious phenomenon. Instead of trying to contest this viewpoint, students would best be served by using this example as a springboard for a greater conversation about our subconscious biases against certain groups of people and the lack of social cohesion...
...slew of recent media mouth offs have demonstrated a poor sense of what constitutes racism. The Don Imus incident is only the tip of the iceberg. While the radio personality’s characterization of the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed ho’s” is certainly objectionable, and, depending on your opinion, grounds for his dismissal, the uproar over his remarks has revealed a crucial fallacy in today’s racial discourse...
...losing their spot in the draft for a year or more, but the greater damage is to the club's reputation and that of Japanese baseball. Former major league manager Bobby Valentine, who now helms the Chiba Lotte Marines in Tokyo, called the Lions' payoffs "the tip of the iceberg." Japanese have tired of the clubby, borderline-corrupt business practices of old-school corporations like the ones behind baseball. That disgust may be bleeding over to the teams themselves...
...other securities whose prices are directly linked to the performance of these companies. Regulating the HMC’s investments beyond the individual stock level would be an undue burden on the HMC, and could easily lead to consequences opposite those intended. From the tip of the accounting iceberg, HDAG’s and The Crimson’s measure of promoting genocide by the HMC can swiftly reach the wrong conclusion when shorts are taken into account. The HMC is doing the right thing—managing Harvard’s endowment to the best...