Word: micros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...dichotomous mission (as described in Courses of Instruction), which is to ensure that students are "broadly educated" and to teach them "approaches to knowledge in areas that the faculty considers indispensable to undergraduate education." These goals are sabotaged by several factors, which include limited offerings, a myopic focus on "micro-events," and a general insistence on the part of the Core office to professors that they "dumb down" classes...
...game can be perilous for less well-prepared entrepreneurs and for the investors who snap up their shares. For every highflyer like Netscape Communications or Pixar Animation that has enriched its owners almost beyond counting, there are dozens of losers that have dashed their founders' dreams. Smith Micro Software, for example, jumped from $12 a share to $14.50 a share amid the frenzy of the IPO market when the Aliso Viejo, California, maker of software for modems went public last Sept. 18. Since then the stock has cooled to about $7.25 a share, leaving founders William and Rhonda Smith...
...attraction is the fact that these large gestures of nature are apolitical. The weather in its mirabilis mode can, of course, be dragged onto the op-ed page to start a macro-argument about global warming or a micro-spat over a mayor's fecklessness in deploying snowplows. Otherwise, traumas of weather do not admit of political interpretation. The snow Shinto reintroduces an element of what is almost charmingly uncontrollable in life. And, as shown last week, surprising, even as the priests predict it. This is welcome--a kind of ideological relief--in a rather stupidly politicized society living under...