Word: macros
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...stronger ethics in public and private life, a move which will not coincidentally require stronger control over the country's media and cultural life. The press, already under strict supervision, was exhorted to report in a more positive way, while the Party announced its intention to strengthen its "macro-control of press and publications." "After months of pushing an anti-American campaign," says TIME's Lewis Simons, "the authorities are simply widening their effort. This is the latest attempt to maintain control over the what information the population receives, and what it thinks. As more Chinese travel...
Lewis is described by Macro B. Simons '97, Undergraduate Council executive and co-chair of the Burma Action Group, as a dean "who consistently seems to undervalue student opinion in the administrative decision-making process...
...building empires--see Marianne Gingrich (who has taken heat for career leaping from beauty consultant to representative of the Israel Export Development Company) and Honey Alexander (a deal cutter so successful she could do infomercials on how to turn $5,000 into $142,000). While the men grapple with macro-finances of the M-1 variety, it falls to their wives to micro-manage tuitions, mortgages and IRAs. Even the aggressively un-Hillary Elizabeth Dole has made--and invested--much of the Dole money...
...moving toward macro regulations as opposed to micro regulations," he said...
...poor in part because visionaries prescribed policies that not even superpowers, such as the Soviet Union, could afford. Food aid has brought food shortages, many now argue, by allowing Africa's governments to maintain in place policies that discriminate against local farmers. Structural adjustment has stabilized Africa's macro-economies but brought little economic growth. Africa's people have paid the costs of "free" public services, foreign "aid" and "free" markets...