Word: equilibriums
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...have stated previously on this page, we support raising the Social Security age; this seems a sensible reaction to the demographic changes that have threatened Social Security in the first place, and one that could over a very long time keep the program in a fiscal equilibrium without drastically changing the situation of retired or non-retired individuals. But whether or not a new proposal suggests raising the retirement age, the Democrats simply must put forth a well-articulated, feasible plan to combat the temptation to passively accept Bush’s untenable privatization scheme...
...follow her across decades as time works its deeper operations--slowly, definitively, sometimes mercilessly. "So this is grief," she thinks at one point. "She feels as if a sack of cement has been poured into her and quickly hardened." After many years she arrives at last at a final equilibrium that could almost be called peace if you did not know all the things that still linger bitterly within...
...professor of demography at Milan's Bocconi University, says large families are the only way to fix Europe's dangerous population slide. In Italy, he says, "even a three-child family is considered completely deviant. That notion has to be avoided; otherwise you can't ever achieve [population] equilibrium." As Europe looks for new ways to convince couples to have more children, it might start by helping those who need no convincing...
...41st President once summed up the core of his equilibrium, which he pretty well maintained in his 40 years of public service, in the following way: "You, old fella, are the luckiest man in the entire world. You have a great wife, five wonderful children and 14 grandkids, all of whom give you happiness. You also have two nice houses, many caring friends, a wonderful small staff, and you have Sadie, a fine old dog. You have a lot of fishing rods and a boat. What more would...
...strike this equilibrium, Greenblatt says that he relied heavily on literary studies, his knowledge of cultural history and his own intuition to reconstruct the likely day-to-day events of Shakespeare’s life...