That's because ensuring our collective security - whether protecting people from physical harm, providing economic stability, or giving children emotional stability - is not just an end in itself.
Although liquidity crises are short-term emergencies and macroeconomic stability is a medium-term goal, locked credit markets soon have wider economic effects.
The outliers' long-run record of stability is far from confidence-inspiring (see chart 2 on previous page).
That kind of long term stability is what long-term fund managers and institutional investors look for.
Say just one car's stability-control system is activated at an unusually slow speed on a highway off-ramp.
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Once there is stability, year-on-year figures will start to improve and that would probably boost confidence further.
That's why the foundation of stability is important for our long-term economic growth.
Timmermans believes political stability is needed in the 17-nation eurozone to implement genuine reform following a debt crisis that has plagued the region for over three years.
But Opec hawks Iran, Libya, and Algeria warned in a statement that market stability is a responsibility of non-Opec as well as Opec producers, implying they might oppose the production increases.
The UK says a mechanism to ensure stability in the eurozone is desirable - and that the planned sanctions would not apply to the UK. But all 27 member states' budgets will come under close scrutiny in a "peer review" process.
And she said that the biggest factor in the future of the refugees - as well as the stability of the whole of the former Yugoslavia - is funding.
What's more, he brings with him the ability to seriously influence the future all-important global debate on making the banks safe, because he is the chair of the Financial Stability Board - the senior worldwide financial regulatory body.
That calm will sit well with the Bundesbank's view that panics blow themselves out, and that what matters most is long-term stability.
Under a true gold standard, the optimal quantity of money is determined by market forces the money supply spontaneously adjusts to the demand for money, and long-run price stability is achieved.
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This is -- I think, all the other countries will have been growing off the economic and stability of the economy, so this is very important for the country who bring growth and who -- more the future and stability of the economic growth.
And the stability of Asia -- economically, politically and militarily, is inextricably entwined with the stability and direction of China.
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The outcome of the election is important to the stability of volatile North Africa and the Middle East -- where Egypt is a key player.
Engaging a unified Germany squarely in the camp of democratic, free market nations joined together -- and armed -- in a defensive military alliance is the best guarantee available of long-term stability.
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"It is not just a question of tackling corruption in business - it is also important for financial and economic stability and the ongoing reforms of the global financial architecture, " the report said.
And Mr Aghajari may yet appeal, our analyst says, since some of Iran's most senior political figures clearly feel the affair is damaging the country's stability at a time when the region is bracing itself for a possible US-led war against Iraq.
So if the urge to deleverage is the new and somewhat depressing (in both senses), deflationary and overwhelming economic reality, the question that follows - and is broadly the one raised by Mr Carney - is whether inflation targeting provides the right kind of stability for this era.
Today, the notion that stability is a realistic aim is even more far-fetched.
Overall, for Syracuse, this opportunity provides long-term conference stability in what is an uncertain, evolving, and rapidly shifting national landscape.
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If used, your offering will have a reliance on the security and stability of third-party base code which is out of your control.
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Too-big-to-fail is the only stability Wall Street can claim.
Now chief Jenkins wants his club to "move on" following a turbulent couple of weeks as he seeks stability ahead of pre-season, which is set to start on 25 June, and as the new Football League fixtures are to be announced on Wednesday.
In choosing the topic for this year's symposium--maintaining stability in a changing financial system--the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City staff is, once again, right on target.
But not everyone is sharing in the stability with pockets of pink-slip pain despite the overall good news.
Thus price stability, not jobs, is the only sensible long-term goal.
Building our energy infrastructure is vital for long-term energy stability.
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