Word: equilibrium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard is not in long term financial equilibrium," the report stated...
...Sexuality, as a source of renewal, "forever unfinished, never complete; it finishes only to begin again, as if for the first time." Love, however, is aware of a whole, it permits the reflectiveness and perspective requisite for art; "the artist's will to preserve and complete, to create an equilibrium, to hold--and in that `holding' to hope for an ultimate assurance--derives from lived or imagined experience of love...
...particularly interesting chapter covers the history of global warming and the awesome onsequences of seemingly small changes in the earth's equilibrium. Apparently, samll temperature changes have precipitated everything from the Ice Age to the habitation of North America. Gore's subsequently predicts that similar changes (such as higher temperatures from global warming) could destroy humanity. Gore's point fails to threaten the reader when one considers that civilization has always adapted to environmental variation...
...know that 400 people have to know anything. I think there is such a form of informational equilibrium that preserves the status quo that you can virtually call it silent consent...
...growth is relentless. We're experiencing something that's very troubling to me, and that is an outflow of those who are the producers -- and a tremendous increase in the number of consumers of services, particularly children. When I say that there has to be an equilibrium, that's really what I'm talking about. There has to be an ability of the state to grow economically to keep pace with the burdens placed...