Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first two waves of the electronic-appliance age have left an indelible mark on America. The nation has more radio receivers than people and more television sets than bathtubs. Now the third wave, the video cartridge (or cassette) player, is about to break upon the U.S., and it could transform the cultural habits of the nation at least as dramatically as the first two. Like pay TV, which for years has been proclaimed as ready to revolutionize the television world any day, the video cartridge has been grandiosely heralded; but even skeptics are now willing to concede that cartridge television...
...then," asks Waidie, "should we increase the pressures on that limited air supply by a governmental policy that will enable barren acres to develop more subdivisions, more automobiles, and more people?" According to Ecologist Watt, the influx of water will worsen Los Angeles smog, which in turn will transform the area into a "death trap...
Motels for Europe. The building rush to meet this demand is most apparent in Europe. Five new hotels will open in London this year; another 30 are due to transform the city's skyline by 1975. Amsterdam is adding 50% to its hotel capacity. In France, where 60% of the hotel space was built before 1914, hotelmen foresee a spurt of construction in Paris and along the Cote d'Azur. The Soviet Union opened a new hotel for foreign tourists this spring at the Black Sea resort of Sochi, will open a second in Leningrad this summer...
...passive waiting for a man to enter her life and magically transform it is something that the intellectual woman has been taught to desire as well as to fear. Is it any wonder that we get "hung up," resentful, are constantly being accused by men of expecting more than they are willing to give...
...reflecting in part higher costs for essential imports like steel. Still, Iran's credit abroad continues to be excellent, largely because of its oil revenues. Whatever the pressures on the economy, they are no match for the will of the Shah, who is determined at all costs to transform Iran into a modern state...