Word: equilibriums
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...aura of mystery surrounds the deliberations of the committee. Wilson and other members refuse to discuss its progress. And, according to a member of another task force, the core curriculum group has virtually sequestered itself like a jury to avoid upsetting a fragile equilibrium-- at the outset, its members were split between abolishing gen ed and distribution requirements and expanding them. The task force has refused a request for a joint meeting from the concentrations committee, but Wilson says the rejection was not the result of a fear of tipping any balance. Instead, he says, "it is pointless to have...
...erect, pressed and combed-not his usual style. Schlesinger argued: "Whether we are successful in pursuing detente or we hedge against the possible failure of detente, a military balance remains necessary. Though we should pursue detente-vigorously-we should pursue it without illusion. Detente rests upon an underlying equilibrium of force, the maintenance of a military balance...
Died. Hugh Auchincloss Brown, 96, engineer who believed that vast polar icecaps would wipe out civilization in this century; in New York City. Brown, author of Cataclysms of the Earth (1967), predicted that the accumulation of ice at the Antarctic would upset the planet's equilibrium and cause it to flip, reversing the North and South Poles. If the catastrophe comes to pass, New York, according to Brown, will be buried under 13 miles of water...
...violent rain squall sweeping across the inlaid pavement of a piazza. The drops, filming the surface with water splashes, broke up the stone pattern, returning it briefly to chaos and instability. Could this breakup not be given an equivalent as painting? It could; and that sense of disturbed equilibrium within what looks like a rigid serial structure was to be the essential "subject" of Riley's work from then...
...local political post. Paul has the sort of model anonymity that in politics can pass for an identity. As he starts to run for of fice, making the rounds of small political interest groups, he also runs into Adriana. He is drawn to her immediately, and his equilibrium becomes a poor and tenuous thing...