Word: micros
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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...
...when he was a student living at the Deke house, just a couple of blocks up the road. Ronald Reagan's economic plans would work, insisted Ford, if the American people wanted them to work. "That is more important than all the technical things, all this micro-and macroeconomics," he said. "There is just no way to equate that with the will of 226 million Americans." As always with Ford, the old bruises and arguments have been set aside, and he is 110% behind the President. The people are feeling once again that they are being "properly led," says...
THIS NEW American-initiated Marshall Plan would involve not only a direct transfer of resources by the affluent countries, but a network of "micro-efforts" by American coporations to aid private enterprise or state-owned entrepreneurial organizations. He proposes modification of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund organizational structure to muster wasted resources currently held by OPEC or in the bloated Eurocurrency market and target them for strategic industrial projects in Third World countries. As in the original Marshall Plan mutual self-interest would provide rich and poor nations with a basis for cooperation...
...scientists foreshadowed their later discoveries of radar and the micro computer (1948) by developing the first radio tubes. Willie Marconi was not present...