Well, credit stability can be as important to a creditor as job stability is to a potential employer.
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It remains to be seen if other European societies will follow the Greek path or if social stability can be restored.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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The European Stability Mechanism and its forerunner, the European Financial Stability Facility, can exploit a special contingency to spend hundreds of billions of euros trying to put a ceiling on borrowing costs.
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.
It needs the type of stability and vision that can only come from new management.
Others have hired marine architects to determine how boats can increase stability, by adding ballast or filling compartments with flotation foam.
Since it reacts to input from its electronic stability control, it can even take into account wheel slippage in wet weather and adjust accordingly.
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.
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.
But, how we make these choices is just as important to creating the stability and predictability that can put our nation on a sustainable path to long-term fiscal responsibility and economic prosperity.
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Systems that monitor blind spots and track the alertness of drivers, and electronic stability control - which can detect and help prevent a skid - are already being introduced to many new vehicles.
Put simply, religious pluralism, tolerance and freedom can help promote stability, security, development and democratic progress.
Farmers need stability and certainty before they can succeed in producing the food their families and societies need.
Authorities recognize the importance for social stability of ensuring that Chinese can invest their savings in a generally fair market.
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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.
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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