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This does not mean, of course, that the total number of Americans will become a constant, like the number of degrees in a triangle. Instead, the future U.S. population is likely either to fluctuate around a base point as it seeks equilibrium, like tides around a mean high-water mark, or continue to increase, but at rates even more modest than today...
...schooling and postpones the time at which women marry and begin having families, thus shortening their child-bearing years. By this pattern, according to the much discussed theory of "demographic transition," societies in the process of becoming industrialized will move from high birth and death rates to a new equilibrium of low birth and death rates...
With last week's death of Peron, the fragile equilibrium in Argentina will very probably explode and the violence escalate. The Traitors helps us understand...
...Europeans have another reservation about détente. They are worried that a "superpower condominium" will settle major issues without consulting them. Former French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, for instance, believed that détente was not really a relaxation of tensions but an equilibrium of power, "a kind of modus vivendi in the management of world affairs between the U.S. and the Soviet Union." Jobert was probably right, at least in part, but the Europeans cannot realistically expect an equal voice with Moscow and Washington
Just as sitting suggests permanence, calm and repose, so the act of balancing -as seen in the Yoruba "Gelede" masks with animals riding their heads and in the figures on houseposts or columns -indicates a harmonious equilibrium with the world and its spirit forces. Kneeling "conveys belief that life demands the beautiful giving of the self to persons of honor." A standing posture implicitly suggests power, life, fortitude, kingliness-as in (amid a host of other examples) the sacred fetishes of Zaire, wooden figures into which tribesmen ceremonially hammer nails as a proof of moral integrity; the fetish, they believe...