Word: equilibrium
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Sadat was a visionary with a talent for astonishing; he had a Clausewitzian instinct ("For great aims, we must dare great things"). He was also a profound, serene fatalist-which may have been the secret of his equilibrium. Such fatalism might serve others well now. Since 1970, 22 heads of state or government have been assassinated. As Theologian Paul Tillich remarked: "Death has become powerful in our time." -By Lance Morrow
First came a violent, momentary loss of equilibrium. Commentators talked about a Middle Eastern Sarajevo, the single death-by-terror that unhinges everything. Then a stabilizing weariness set in, and even, about this one, a sense of inevitability...
Charles is expected to continue, and perhaps even slightly increase, his mother's stringent sense of the equilibrium of the monarchy. A few of his subjects are even anxious for him to give it an early start and have begun speculating on the possibility of the Queen's abdicating. As far as the Windsors and those closest to them are concerned, such talk is pure fiction...
...proposed social and economic] changes will be introduced in stages, based on a pace of transformation that will take into account the crisis situation, the fact that France's economy is open to the world at large, and the need to maintain economic and financial equilibrium...
...These programs are a reaction to research which has pointed out that some schools are more effective than other schools," Patricia A. Graham, chairman of the leadership committee, says, adding that administrators must learn to achieve "the right equilibrium and the right balance" between schooling and other influences such as television and the child's ethnic or racial background...