Word: equilibrium
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...judgment and integrity to treat it absolutely seriously. His film seldom veers toward the melodramatic and never toward easy undercutting of his characters and their hang-ups. He has set himself a hard task, balancing his story on the fine line between the maudlin and the ridiculous. But his equilibrium is good, his eye is true, and Sally's Hounds succeeds as a domestic tragedy of late-adolescent emotional life and sexuality...
...during chemical reactions that last only one-billionth of a second. All three came to their award-winning conclusions by subjecting samples of various chemicals to short bursts of energy, then electrically, acoustically and optically measuring the time that elapsed before the chemicals' return to a state of equilibrium...
...will be politically stable, in which case "the old nations of the world are likely to be free of invasion and even relatively free of domestic violence." The U.S. and Russia will remain the world's only superpowers, still frozen and possibly even united in postures of armed equilibrium. Such a world will have rejected aggression in favor of economic competition -which by 2000 will have elevated Japan to the third-ranking industrial power (now fifth...
Irrelevant Ideology. Looking up from the Cuban brink, both sides found that a political and military equilibrium had been reestablished. "A geographical status quo that had seemed too abnormal for endurance had endured so long, at last, as to begin to seem normal." Eastern Europe was working itself free of Moscow's grasp; trade between the Europes was eroding the Iron Curtain; ideology on either side was losing its relevance. "As with the conflict between Christendom and Islam centuries earlier," concludes Halle, "the slow churning forces of secular change were transforming the conditions on which the cold...
...week, however, everybody seemed to be embracing it. Hubert Humphrey and ten House Democrats called for a "Marshall Plan" for the cities. Roy Wilkins told a Washington audience that "if we can under write the economies of Germany, France, Italy and England and see that these people recover their equilibrium, then we can underwrite the cost of re covering the equilibrium of our own native black people...