Word: equilibriums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equilibrium" in society will result from this second transition, Boulding foresaw. He described the equilibrium as one that would be total, and not restricted to economic areas...
Boulding warned that there were three threats to the achievement of this "high-level equilibrium." The first of these is the increasing population. He lamented that there are no adequate institutions available to limit the population, and called misery the only effective method at present. Looking ahead 200 years, Boulding saw a "universal slum," should this problem not be overcome...
...Those nations are most threatened, and their fate is most crucial to the free world. Said the Philippines' Chief Delegate Francisco Delgado: "We cannot all be neutrals. Some of us have to perform the unpleasant and even dangerous duty of helping to keep the scales of power in equilibrium. The moment these scales are badly tilted one way or the other, the neutrals are not only out of business, but war becomes inevitable." U.S. concern with Laos results from the fear that, should it fall into Communist hands, Thailand and all Southeast Asia would be instantly threatened...
Last spring Teacher Cassell sent 21 sophomores out to survey Glendale on the premise that "a community is composed of a group of organisms living together in dynamic equilibrium with the environment." They discovered that the chaparral on the nearby Verdugo Mountains is all that keeps Glendale from being washed away by flood. Studying plants, they found those that best sustain this growth, e.g., black mustard. They analyzed the city water supply, found it pure but dwindling. Armed with petri dishes, they made bacteria counts in restaurants, groceries, the city jail, restrooms and hospitals. They measured noise, nutrition, recreation, garbage...
...hours' exercise on an occasional weekend will not suffice. "To maintain . . . equilibrium in heart metabolism,' Dr. Raab says, "one has to earn it day by day and year by year . . . Our Western so-called 'normal' hearts . . . are in reality pathetic artifacts, insidiously degenerating products of supercivilized soft living...