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...annual property tax of $2,914.) But because of the community's historic resistance to commercial development, and thus the limited options for raising new revenues, the board has little choice but to count on the district's voters to see them through to fiscal equilibrium...
...atmospheric scientist Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Indeed, at a certain stage of its life cycle, a storm of a given size will stir up enough cold water to put a halt to its growth. At that point, scientists say, it has come into equilibrium. Maintaining that balance is especially hard, because if a hurricane stirs up too much cold water, it will weaken and die. This suicidal tendency no doubt helps account for the fact that Category 5 hurricanes are so rare. Indeed, only two have hit the U.S. during this century, among them...
This flip has reached equilibrium only this year, resulting in a merger that dissolves Radcliffe College and creates a new Institute for Advanced Study...
Scholars and managers of university presses say they are still seeking that happy equilibrium...
Says You!, originating from WGBH Boston and heard on 65 public-radio stations, restores some intellectual equilibrium to the airwaves. Created and hosted by Richard Sher, it offers cunning posers to two teams of players: the sports origin of such phrases as "play for keeps" (marbles) and "to get a rise out of" (fishing); words derived from the Latin for "above the eyebrow" (supercilious) and "before and after" (preposterous); definitions of recent coinages like adhocracy and nouvelle cuisine (which Kahn defined as "a fashionable way to starve in polite company...