Word: macro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tread the macro straight and narrow...
However, Rosovsky's manner tended to be somewhat intimidating at times. When Bains said his proposed student advisory committee on the budget would examine budgetary issues on a "micro-level" while the CHUL could provide input on a "macro-level", Rosovsky, an economics professor, lifted his eyebrows and smirked with apparent disdain...
...fine art of refereeing has evolved over the years, although most of the changes are not on the order of macro-mutations. Besides basic rule changes that have come in, such as the ban on dunking and an automatic technical for vibrating the backboard, Diehl describes a fundamental change in the officials' psychological pampering of players. "We've had to adjust our thinking and our approach because the generation has changed, with their free speech so to speak. We'll give a kind word now instead of a technical...
...someone, somewhere-but whom?-the memorandum circulated recently at Harvard Business School's division of computer service doubtless made perfect sense. It read, in full: "We have been informed by DEC that a bug in the normalization algorithm used in three MACRO instructions (FADL, FSBL and FMPL) can cause a FORTRAN double precision compare to give incorrect results. A double precision compare should be accurate to 16 digits. This bug can cause the compare to give incorrect results in the ninth digit. We will notify all Users as soon as we receive a solution to the problem from...
...Sagan, it is scientifically possible for Mars to harbor "macro-organisms" the size of polar bears, who crunch rocks for water, sport silicon skins to protect themselves against deadly sunburn, and hibernate for thousands of years at a stretch. Sagan also contemplates astro-engineered civilizations so far advanced that their accomplishments would seem to us "indistinguishable from magic." He can easily imagine intergalactic, rapid-transit routes where "an object that plunges down a rotating black hole may re-emerge elsewhere and elsewhen-in another place and another time...