Word: micros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...micro owners are finding other uses for their machines
...Roper survey, which phrased its poll questions somewhat differently, found that 75% of those interviewed in homes with computers used them for both video-game playing and calculations. In the 18-to-29 age category, 25% expressed interest in using a micro. That percentage dropped to 16% in the 30-to-44 bracket; to 9% with the 45-to-59 crowd; and to a minuscule 3% among the over-60 generation. Similarly, disapproval of personal computers rose with age: 28% in the 18-to-29 group, and all the way up to 87% for those 60 and older...
...Reich's teaching, like his policies, are not for everyone. Students say that he is not the most scholarly of professors and does not have the firmest hold on micro and macro economic theories, but instead paints with a broad brush. For that reason he tends to draw students who are more interested in politics than academia. As one comments. "Bob is not an academician by any means, but he is good for the people he is teaching and preparing for government." Another adds. "His teaching is geared to what the Democrats should...
...while tilting at the bold new questions of the eighties and beyond. Hart leaves the old queries to faster. His economic program levels micro solutions helping individual workers and individual flame--an what are essentially macro problems. Freeing up investment funds and giving workers more skills can only work so far. Without an underlying boost in aggregate demand, few companies will care to invest those funds, and without an overall increase in job openings, the most intricate job training will not place the unemployed...
...representative of Hewlett-Packard, an American firm heavily involved with micro-chip technology, recently told a Harvard Business School group that America's share in the global electronics market has dropped from a post-war 100 percent to a current 25 percent, with Japan and other Asian nations picking up the slack. He did not, though, attribute this decrease to the inability of American goods to compete in world markets but to the decline in quality and numbers of science teachers in high schools...