Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agonize over the cost of the program -which NASA says will come to no more than .5% to 1% of the gross national product (currently running at $900 billion) a year. And the question of priorities will remain relevant as long as such earthly imperfections as poverty and pollution persist. Still, as Science-Fiction Writer Isaac Asimov says, "Man has always had the other side of the hill to worry about"-and he always will. This week the other side of the hill is the moon. Before this century ends, it will almost certainly be Mars -and beyond...
...crash program" to increase capacity. Its maintenance spending will rise from last year's $293 million to $343 million, and it is now installing 33,000 phones a month in the New York City area, up from 20,000 in 1967. As for Benton & Bowles, its problems persist. Last week the agency discovered that its listing was inadvertently left out of the new phone books. New York Tel promised to insert the listing in the last half of the press run, and to make sure that the early books are distributed to Manhattan's outlying areas where...
...attraction of the Marxist vision may persist until modern society finds a more effective way of explaining itself and its direction. And that could be a long, long time...
...years (and doing his best to hurry it into an early grave by writing some of the most perishable prose in memory). "The book is a very special form of communication," McLuhan told the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association in Washington. "It is unique and it will persist." As the nation's leading exponent of electronic communication, however, McLuhan could not resist at least one dig at the reading public, which he says is made up of "print freaks." The United States, he said, "is the only country founded on literacy-on the Gutenberg press. Therefore...
...executes his revolution from above more or less indirectly, carrying suggestions from one group to another, completing or urging the completion of half-formed plans. He assembles dinners and meetings in the hope that those convoked will somehow adhere and persist. His aim is the old one of making something out of the curious mixture of professors, tutors and undergraduates who sit down to lunch everyday beneath the glum stare of the 14-point moose who surveys the House dining room...