Word: impresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likely to fail. (In my opinion, they are certain to fail.) It is my contention that the U.S.S.R. will only negotiate seriously when they must do so, and they do not think they need to do so now. A firm political union of the Western democracies would surely impress upon them the desirability of a revision of this estimate...
Tiros II has two cameras. Both are water-glass size, containing midget tubes that impress electronic photographs on magnetic tape. The pictures are sent down to earth on command from stations in California and New Jersey...
...last May, the Soviet currency reform was to be carried out strictly for reasons of internal simplification (ten old rubles to be exchanged for one of the new "heavy" ones). Last week's bit of jiggery-pokery about changing the ruble's gold value was supposed to impress people in the underdeveloped countries as evidence that it is now worth 11% more than the U.S. dollar (gold valuation: .888 grams). But since the Soviet government does not permit the ruble, light or heavy, to be traded internationally at all, no one was much impressed...
...side by side with Leverett Saltonstall, Volpe was more conspicous in comparison with the mild and soft-spoken senior Senator. After Saltonstall would finish with his short and innocuous remarks the diminutive Volpe would get the floor and begin a sneering, wise, cracking harangue. His brassiness never failed to impress people, one way or another...
Much of the current non-technical literature of economic development suffers from the same fault: inability to impress clarity on a very confused situation. Some writers, like W. W. Rostow of M.I.T., have tried to be too clear. In his Stages of Economic Growth, Rostow attempts to provide a useful framework by dividing all societies into five stages of development: traditional societies, the preconditions for take-off, the take-off, maturity, and the age of high-mass consumption. If nations such as Peru and Pakistan can fulfill the right pre-conditions, Rostow says, by allocating resources to the right sectors...