Word: equilibriums
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Washington believes that three more years of military and economic aid-totaling from $3.5 billion to $4 billion-would enable Saigon to establish a battlefield equilibrium. This would set the stage for political talks between the opposing sides, as called for in the 1973 Paris Peace Accords...
Looking ahead, the biggest problem will be in maintaining a proper equilibrium among the three powers-Russia, China and the U.S. The U.S. has a tremendous responsibility to maintain a credible posture both in material terms and in being able to deter wars. We will need the kind of skill in diplomacy that will avoid brinkmanship and the possibility of miscalculation...
...build our peace-structure." This year the Soviet threat will probably be re-emphasized by the secretary of defense with the same notions of a worldwide "peace-structure." Schlesinger's defense for the Defense Department is based on the ridiculous assumption that the U.S. is maintaining worldwide military equilibrium and defending freedom...
...Europe of the 1930s as it might have been dreamed by Aubrey Beardsley. What makes the movie so fresh, in addition to lavish visual invention, is Schmid's ability to reconcile opposites: reverence and mockery, cruelty and poignancy. La Paloma is the kind of necromancy that unsettles equilibrium and kindles quick, if baffled responses: whatever it is, it certainly is some kind of fantastic movie...
...only that. Whereas Matisse sought what he called "an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquillity, without disturbing or preoccupying subject matter," expressionism tended to become an art of social commitment...