Word: equilibriums
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...This policy of France may temporarily lead the two very great powers, on occasions when they meet each other, to agree at least to keep France at a distance. We regret these contretemps for them, for us, and for the world. But we know that our equilibrium is identified with the equilibrium of peace, and we are fully decided not to abandon it, in the certainty that, after various oscillations, our attitude will finally determine the equilibrium of the needle for the good...
...jumping-off point of speculation upon the nature of man and the universe. Wherever Hellenism has penetrated, we find the idea of it familiar. . . . The Occident, however, has lost it, and no longer even has a word to express it in any of its languages: conceptions of limit, measure, equilibrium, which ought to determine the conduct of life are, in the West, restricted to a servile function in the vocabulary of technics. We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in their apprenticeship to virtue...
...acting otherwise, in today's world situation, I would have risked not following ... the French policy of equilibrium between the two very great political powers [Russia and the U.S.] which I believe absolutely necessary for the interests of the country and even for peace...
...pressure for agreement was heavy on both sides. China's treaty with Russia had stabilized her external relations; agreement with Communist China would restore her internal equilibrium. Russia was preoccupied with pressing European matters, also needed time to reabsorb her Asiatic conquests. At the very least, the Moscow broadcast bespoke a willingness to agree that Mao could hardly ignore...
...quickly industry could regain its equilibrium depended upon how quickly it could: 1) clear its plants and set up peacetime assembly lines; 2) obtain a steady supply of raw materials; 3) get a firm pricing policy from...