Word: equilibrium
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...stabbed his political enemies in Chicago and torn out their hearts with his hands, he should still not be barred by us from becoming a professor at Harvard. Who knows, in the course of this experience he might have had a visionary insight into the silliness of general equilibrium analysis for the sake of which a grateful, irresponsible, and dazzled posterity might forgive him his crimes. As people and as citizens we do not allow the ends to justify the means. We rightly try not to participate in posterity's characteristic moral indifference and in its crazed and crude worship...
...Islanders stormed out of the locker room intent on quickly securing their third overtime win in four games. New York pressed for the coup de grace, but Cheevers denied numerous bids in the first few minutes of sudden death and gave his teammates a chance to gain equilibrium...
Khadga Shah professes to separate his own views from those of the government, claiming that "My relation with the King is just not relevant." He identifies his responsibility as an editor with perceiving "how best I can serve the interests of the country, King and people," noting that the equilibrium he must maintain as both an editor and brother-in-law to the King "reflects our country--balancing is an art every Nepalese is adept at." But when a newspaper editor endorses censorship of the press, the source of his ultimate loyalty--the people or the King--no longer seems...
...conclusions are hardly original. Until a century ago, almost all medicine was based on the theory that illness stemmed from social and spiritual as well as physiological disorders. Even today, holistic medicine tries to cure its patients by restoring their spiritual equilibrium...
...fragile equilibrium in the Middle East and Central Asia deteriorates, the position of the U.S. vis-a-vis these areas becomes ever more similar to that of the man faced with the task of holding a dam which is constantly springing new leaks. Our approach has been to stuff these leaks with fistfuls of dollars, or arms, or both: $2.2 billion as an initial installment on the Egyptian-Israeli treaty (Israel is dissatisfied with a $200 million increase over this in credits; President Carter is seeking congressional approval to send an additional $1.1 billion in arms aid to Egypt, while...