Word: macro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although components of dozens of smaller computers comprise this networking array, those in the know consider the monster an independent entity. Each individual element contributes to the system's working on a macro scale. The result: a quietly whirring marvel that routes every Harvard student onto the Internet and allows them access to e-mail...
...believe rates will keep falling. I'd like to be in a position to refinance again next year without losing any closing costs. The macro bet is to get a one-year, adjustable-rate mortgage. But ARM rates aren't low enough, and I'm opposed to making a macro bet with my home. I could, gulp, be wrong about rates. If I'm right, though, the smart loan is one without closing costs. The time to buy down your rate by paying points and fees is when market rates are poised to trend up, and that...
...Ouimet, Sarnoff and a growing number of professionals who are retiring in their 40s and 50s to embark on second careers, a whole new life is just beginning. Their motivations are as individual as the people involved, but from a macro-economic point of view, they represent the baby-booming future. As the giant demographic bulge of the boomers moves deeper into middle age, many of them are severing connections with the institutions where they have worked for decades and are striking out afresh, while they are still hale enough to do something rigorous and challenging with the rest...
Pius' story can be seen as the macro to Edith Stein's micro. Devout and ascetic in life, long a favorite of the church's conservative branch, the wartime Pontiff has been sharply criticized both by Jewish leaders and church liberals for his refusal to publicly condemn the Nazis, a "silence" that some suggest may have cost untold Jewish lives. Pius' defenders reply heatedly that his efforts to hide Jews in Italy and elsewhere saved thousands. More important, they insist that silence was the best policy--and here Pius' story intersects Stein's. According to Gumpel, Pius was about...
...Macro viruses such as "Concept" and "Wazzu" can do everything from preventing you from saving your document to actually destroying data. They are spread by the opening of infected documents, and often exist unannounced, wreaking havoc without taking credit...