Word: developed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...midst of the greatest technological advance in its history-and the U.S. has been in the vanguard of that advance. As Gertrude Stein observed, the U.S. is the world's oldest country because it was really the first to enter the 20th century. It was the first to develop electric signs, skyscrapers, the conveyer belt and the computer. It was first with traffic jams, modern central heating and indoor plumbing, first with the airplane and the telephone, first with a radio, automobile, refrigerator, and a TV and washing machine cheap enough for every workingman. Much of the world...
...vast, only the U.S., untouched among the large, powerful nations by the ravages of war and nurtured on a freewheeling capitalism, had the resources to lead the technological advance. By the very nature of the advance, other nations had to follow, adopting the techniques and products that had been developed. This fundamental fact of modern technology, as much as anything else, is what has galled Charles de Gaulle and spurred him to insist that France develop, for example, her own atomic force de frappe. The Common Market, too, is Europe's attempt to create a huge mass market like...
...injuries by one-third. Convinced by the grim statistics, legislators have made seat belts mandatory on new cars in 32 states and the District of Columbia. Still, studies show that motorists are unimpressed; they fail to buckle their belts 50% of the time. Now the law is beginning to develop a powerful persuader: failure to use a seat belt may well bar recovery in a personal-injury suit...
Auto Ban? The ideal solution would be for the U.S. to develop more national parks, but that is hard to do because the rapidly urbanizing nation is running out of suitable land. The park service recently completed a ten-year, $600 million program that doubled the number of campsites in existing parks and added more than 100 visitor centers. Since 1961, however, the Government has enlarged the total system by barely 3%, adding 844,000 acres through the acquisition of such areas as Massachusetts' Cape Cod National Seashore and New York's Fire Island National Park. Cramped...
...oldest but least discussed of all the problems of hospital care: how to let patients perform natural functions in relaxed privacy, without waiting for an assisted trip to the bathroom, or the discomfort of the bedpan. For when they are faced with so inhibiting a situation, many embarrassed patients develop elimination difficulties severe enough to require extra medical and nursing care...