Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 the U.S.'s own and a pool of resources capable of meeting the huge needs of technology. While pioneering the technological revolution...
...trouble is that though Yosemite sprawls over 1,189 square miles, more than 80% of the visitors insist on huddling together in one seven-square-mile valley that is easily accessible and is ringed by spectacularly beautiful cliffs up to 7,000 ft. high. The valley has campsites for 9,348 people, lodge and hotel accommodations for another 4,500. That is scarcely sufficient for the 20,000 tourists who jam the valley every day all summer, let alone the 45,000 who swarm there on holiday weekends...
Paris has plenty of doctors-during daylight hours. From 8 in the evening until 8 the next morning, the doctors insist on their privacy; medical help becomes harder to find than a polite cab driver. To Parisians the scarcity has sometimes meant long hours of pain, or even death...
...were the publishers of the city's merged newspapers of a mind to prod the Guild along. For as soon as the package is ratified, the strike will be officially over. The publishers will then be locked in a legal battle with the Printing Pressmen, who insist that their only contracts are with papers that no longer exist. As long as they lack a new contract with the World Journal Tribune, they say, they will not work. That argument is already being contested in the courts, but legal action was suspended while Guild picket lines kept the Pressmen from...
...invent a new language to describe it. GROUPERS are not fish, but young people who have pooled their assets to rent a house together for the season. There are BOY HOUSES and GIRL HOUSES but the MIXED HOUSE is fast becoming the most popular arrangement. Seasoned groupers insist on VISITING PRIVILEGES before going in on a house; that means they can bring along their SLEEPIES, who are nonresident guests of the opposite...