Word: macros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barone tends to frame political issues within the broader perspective he draws from his research in census and polling figures. But for all his "macro" ideas, he has not let the change in the quality of his daily, "micro" relations with America's Congressmen and Senators escape his notice. At first, says Barone, he was a little-known figure on Capitol Hill. But as his book--with its circulation of about 50,000--has begun to become quite well-known in Washington, especially amoung journalists, he finds "they all treat me very nicely." The politicians didn't need an almanac...
Perhaps most of the world's gossip-both macro and micro-is done for the interest and entertainment of it. At certain dinner parties in Georgetown and Beverly Hills and East Hampton (cannibals' picnics, nights of the long knives), the gossip is a combination of dispassionate vivisection and blood sport: reputations are expertly filleted and the small brown pits of egos are spit out decorously into spoons and laid at the edge of the plate...
...withdraws into his Sanforized shirt, moves into his child's dollhouse, tumbles into the cellar and slays a now giant spider with a straight pin. At the end, when he escapes into the star-speckled night, he is so small he almost disappears into the universe. Microcosm and macro cosm are one. He has conquered his des tiny by surrendering...
...opposing faction did not deny this, but questioned Commoner's commitment to local party-building. Lucius Walker of Pennsylvania, a major figure in the camp opposed to Commoner's views, said that Commoner would be an ideal national candidate. "He's very good on the corporate and macro issues, but not so good on grass roots organizing...
...quarter to a third of the recent slowdown in the growth of labor productivity. This explanation alone is not sufficient, for in 1965-1973 there was rapid growth in physical stock without discernable positive effect on labor productivity. The effects of government regulation are difficult to assess from a macro-economic perspective, but they have clearly contributed to the decline of productivity in mining and apparently in the public utilities sector as well. The decline in R & D expenditures in and of itself probably did not have appreciable effect on the decline in productivity growth. The rise in energy prices...