Word: macro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weedon explained that a serious problem at the Business School is a "lack of communication between administration, Faculty, and students on the macro level...
Adopt for the moment the macro, that is to say, comprehensive point of view. No longer forced to rummage about for detail, be free to indulge in geographic and historic analogy. Consider Nathan's Famous. Not Nathan's Famous in Coney Island, hot-dog server to the world, but Nathan's Famous of Oceanside. Situated on the broad Long Island plane, accessible by car from all directions, Nathan's of Oceanside is what Harvard Square would be if city planners took teen-agers to heart and let traffic control go hang. Conceive a commodious space, roofed with wood, full...
...Corps Volunteer as somewhere between amateur and expert, tourist and scholar can help put in perspective what Volunteers have written and will write about their work in developing societies. Alongside startling naivetes we are likely to find startling insights. The Volunteer does not have an economist's understanding of macro-economic growth, but he knows many things about development that the expert has never seen. And while he lacks the anthropologist's scholarship in his approach to foreign culture, the Volunteer brings to it a unique kind of involvement...
...rules on the names one should have (Rodney is "not so good today"); on accents ("The military bark is the safest bet"); on dress (suits may be elegantly aged by "filling the pockets with stones and hanging them out in the rain"). His Grace's advice on that "macro-snob" tradition, the weekend houseparty: "Do not go to bed with the hostess unless it is really necessary-almost unavoidable...
...Macro is 'great' biotic is life--the great life. You eat this food and you become conscious of things you never knew before. First your body feels better, then you get smarter...