Word: macro
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...attraction is the fact that these large gestures of nature are apolitical. The weather in its mirabilis mode can, of course, be dragged onto the op-ed page to start a macro-argument about global warming or a micro-spat over a mayor's fecklessness in deploying snowplows. Otherwise, traumas of weather do not admit of political interpretation. The snow Shinto reintroduces an element of what is almost charmingly uncontrollable in life. And, as shown last week, surprising, even as the priests predict it. This is welcome--a kind of ideological relief--in a rather stupidly politicized society living under...
...recent Microsoft Word "virus" exploited this feature. Someone wrote a destructive program using the Microsoft Word macro language which simply looked like a harmless Microsoft Word data file. If you selected the file from your Web browser, Microsoft Word would load the file and run the program, making your life miserable for the next few days...
What about the macro view? Economists have to ask themselves: Does the boost in the GNP from O.J. output make up for the drag on the GNP from millions of people glued to their TV sets and staying away from the stores? According to my statistical reckoning, Americans put in more man-hours watching the Bronco chase than it took to build the entire Panama Canal...
...other members of the administration over the dangers of the growing deficit. The hundreds of undergraduates who take Feldstein's "Ec 10," usually the largest course at Harvard, will get a detailed explanation of why Marty was right, as well as a presentation of the basics of micro and macro with a conservative spin...
...Saturday morning, however, one of the petitions's signers, Macro B. Simons '97, asked to remove his name from the petition. Later that evening another signature was added...