Word: equilibrium
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...They are not a reliable balance of equilibrium," he said. "They are based on technological and human factors that are inherently unstable. This constant building of weapon upon weapon creates a kind of dynamic that's always dangerous to have, because it can so easily imbalance...
...even to the capitalists? Or could they be just crazy enough to destroy themselves for a little more of our gold? Sadly, they are not. Bourgeois democracies expect and even rely on a certain amount of safe "dissent" they can absorb gracefully and thus maintain the dynamic equilibrium that is their power base...
...They would like to see white people give back the red man, the black man, the yel-???v man, his land, his freedom... but then who would play the inferior enemy in the western, the war film, who would say "bwana" on safari? They would like to see sexual equilibrium. But then would could tolerate Eliot Gould's lines in Getting Straight: "She's a good scientist, lousy lay"; Candice Bergen's lines, "I didn't even feel like a date-you didn't buy me popcorn" or anonymous gems: "Women have that charming ability to adapt to whatever...
...least the first part of Palme's eight-day visit has begun to take the chill off U.S.-Swedish relations. This week, as if to maintain the equilibrium of his nation's neutrality, Palme will be off again, for an unofficial sojourn in Moscow...
After five seasons of reduced ivy spraying, the biologists believe that the moths and parasites have struck an equilibrium. But "we haven't put in a recommendation yet because we have only had one good summer," Darlington said. "We need one more good summer before we know where we really stand...