Word: icebergs
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Assuming that the more highly motivated college bound crowd is only the tip of the iceberg, educators have acknowledged grimly that virtually nothing is being taught in the vast majority of public high schools. Hence the "basic competency" movement, which, though designed to evaluate high schools by granting diplomas only if students pass a battery of publicly sponsored tests, is much , more severe in its immediate effects...
...professors and administrators, Harvard already seems an institution ill-equipped to deal with a matter like sexual harassment. Although Lewis has said that more than 25 women came to her this year alone with complaints of sexual harassment--and this is no doubt the tip of a much larger iceberg--each of these women is made to feel that she is the only one. Only when cases of sexual harassment are publicized and publicly condemned, will women know that this is something the College takes seriously--something women now have no way of knowing...
...victim of high interest rates." Federal Home Loan Bank Board Chairman Richard T. Pratt tried to calm nervous depositors at Fidelity and other S and Ls by assuring them that the takeover was not the beginning of a trend. Said he: "This isn't the tip of the iceberg...
...resolutions on Capitol Hill are the small tip of a very large iceberg. In part, the Senators who favor the motions are responding to an unprecedented flood of teach-ins, referendums, legislative proposals, letter-writing campaigns, petitions, and books addressing the peril of nuclear war. The groups involved in the movement include such longtime disarmament organizations as SANE and the Union of Concerned Scientists. But with them are a host of fledgling organizations: Physicians for Social Responsibility, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, the Business Alert to Nuclear War, Artists...
These goals only touched the iceberg because when you're good you get lucky: Yale goalie Betsy Mason fumbled the puck in the crease, giving Firkins Reed a freebie at 3:36. After Yale broke their goose-egg with a power-play goal by Betsy Bradley at 5:32, the Crimson retaliated late in the period on a goal by Palmer. Right wing White finished off the scoring with her second of the game, intercepting at 14:55 of the third period...