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...quite popular with some of the students," Day said. "A number of students from his micro[economics] section in the fall signed up with him for macro [economics] in the spring...
Harvard's introductory economics course, affectionately known as "Ec 10" by government and fine arts concentrators alike, boasts an enrollment of 1,021 students this semester. But Ec 10 is only an introduction that acquaints its students with the basic tools of micro-and macroeconomics. It effectively enables them to read The Wall Street Journal and understand what, for example, a rise in interest rates actually means...
Panetta's departure leaves an enormous vacuum, and Raines appears eager to take advantage of it. In a White House that churns out micro-initiatives every day, Raines has squelched the Administration's habit of making such announcements without checking whether OMB has sanctioned a plan to pay for them with cuts elsewhere. This month he stepped in to require a more thorough vetting of measures that would tighten food-safety regulations. "There were more people running around with their own little pet projects," says White House spokesman Michael McCurry. "Raines has reined...
...says. "We'd talk for hours every day." After Gates went off to Harvard, Allen drove his rattletrap Chrysler cross-country to continue their collaboration. He eventually persuaded Gates to become that university's most famous modern dropout in order to start a software company, which they initially dubbed Micro-Soft (after considering the name Allen & Gates Inc.), to write versions of BASIC for the first personal computers. It was an intense relationship: Gates the workaholic code writer and competitor, Allen the dreamy visionary...
Rubin also outlined an eight-point economic agenda for the nation, which includes instituting community development bank programs, expanding micro-enterprise loans, increasing the involvement of the private sector in mentoring private businesses and creating secondary markets for loans to the inner cities...