Word: equilibrium
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...take Europe's security interests into account. For us, the zero option, the withdrawal and destruction of Soviet SS- 20s and of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles, could be positive elements as long as there existed, on a parallel basis, the broad outlines of agreement in principle on equilibrium in short-range missiles and on the means of verification. Will it be balanced and verifiable? We're not there...
...tries to pull all of its matter in toward the center, and the intense thermonuclear energy radiating from its core, which pushes the matter outward, keeping the star in the form of a distended ball of hot gases. For most of a star's lifetime, these forces are in equilibrium...
...problem is, the people for whom he has a genial contempt keep upsetting his equilibrium. A harmless pleasantry to the maid about her marriage prospects is rewarded with an unexpectedly bitter rebuke about men. A brief turn on the dance floor with a young woman results in a discomfiting discussion of Irish patriotism. Finally, the innocuous singing of a melancholy Irish air leads Gretta down a bitter path of memory that results in a crushing revelation, of a past life and an unforgotten lover who died for love...
...along in the dark through the tunnel that runs from Weld Hall to Sever Hall. "If you ever walk through a dark tunnel, you can't walk straight," he says. "It's a very strange feeling. You start reeling towards the wall. You lose your sense of orientation, of equilibrium." He finally made it, though, and the next time he went through the passage he made sure he found the light switch...
...stupor after lunch. Doors slam; people hop out from bushes and then back behind them; Platonov carries on simultaneous conversations, and the wrong people hear him. This might be French bedroom farce, except that lives are at stake. Whatever Platonov decides, his little world will not reach equilibrium again...