Others have hired marine architects to determine how boats can increase stability, by adding ballast or filling compartments with flotation foam.
Najib says only the National Front can maintain stability in Malaysia, which has long been one of Southeast Asia's most peaceful and relatively wealthier countries.
Whether the new government can bring stability is another matter.
Well, credit stability can be as important to a creditor as job stability is to a potential employer.
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If thoughts now turn to Jordan, it is in the realm of political transformation and not in military affairs, where Jordan can make a major contribution to stability that can pave the way to a future peace.
And until we can return to housing-market stability, banks can borrow for next to nothing and lend at rates once charged only by Mafia loan sharks.
Put simply, religious pluralism, tolerance and freedom can help promote stability, security, development and democratic progress.
It remains to be seen if other European societies will follow the Greek path or if social stability can be restored.
But while blue-chip companies can often provide stability (and pay a nice dividend) bigger companies do not always make for better investments.
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Yet in fact, a flexible exchange rate can offer more stability, partly by providing a safety valve which helps to protect the real economy.
Why not give women around the world access to small loans to start or grow their own businesses so that they can gain economic stability?
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Kan said excessive currency moves can harm financial stability and that he hopes the Bank of Japan will take appropriate monetary policy steps, according to a Reuters report.
Only continuing stability can produce the kind of sustained, long-term economic development needed to create enough jobs and get the unemployed back to work on a permanent basis.
Let us be cautious but optimistic, but let us move quickly to feed people and to put together a government that can actually bring stability to this war-torn region.
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Villas-Boas has been under the spotlight following Chelsea's recent struggles, but a measure of calm and stability can now be restored as they play for the familiar territory of the later stages of the Champions League.
The Saudis and their pals want to do what they can to maintain stability and help the world economy from slipping back into the abyss (if only because they have a lot to lose if it does).
That said, the peace it creates can free a state to make the social investments that its populace actually needs, while the stability peace brings can pay its own economic dividends.
Worse still, it is extremely unlikely that the cartel can actually deliver the stability that everybody seems to crave.
Granted, forecasts presume stability and can be knocked off course by economic downturns, natural disasters, political unrest, and unchecked corruption.
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Electronic stability control can actually prevent accidents, reliably sensing and correcting a sudden loss of traction or control--something inexperienced drivers are least equipped to handle.
Outside of natural cycles in the economy, there are many externalities that can interfere with market stability, for example war, the deficit, international financial distress, etc.
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Those hopes were tempered by news out of Germany that a hearing over whether the European Stability Mechanism can bypass sovereigns and directly recapitalize banks was delayed.
And as a nation, we will continue to do everything we can both to promote stability and democracy in the Middle East and help the people of Japan recover from the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Mr. King reiterated his belief that all that any central bank can deliver over the long term is price stability and that since monetary policy can only bring forward future spending, it is subject to the law of diminishing returns.
Why would anyone choose a Southern Cross home when it is unclear who will be running the home in a few weeks time - and when, for all Mr Fisher's protestations that wholesale closures of homes are very unlikely, he can't guarantee stability unless and until it's creditors guarantee that?
That can be employing workers on day rates, with little stability or security, though it can be more positive than that, appealing to employers and the self-employed person by offering flexibility.
China can be a source of stability and help to underwrite international norms and codes of conduct.
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When wheels are being driven directly by electric motors, different levels of torque can be applied to improve stability on corners.
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This mixture of motives can be toxic for financial stability.
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