It is the foundation of legitimate states and the basis for stable international relations.

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It is the basis for a more equitable and stable international order.

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The important thing about gold, as a basis for monetary systems, is that its value is stable.

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And overall, its growth in revenue and gross profit is stable, while its growth rate in net income, on quarter over quarter basis, remains impressive.

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Every way I looked at it the velocity of money was anything but stable and the volume of goods and services produced went up and down on the basis of what the expectations were of the future.

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Moreover, with OS X, Apple has a base of stable, well-understood code that allows it to add incremental improvements, on a regular basis, for years.

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The new sets of overall weights are then used as a basis for a further recalculation, and the whole process is repeated until the values become stable.

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With OS X, Apple has a base of stable, Unix-based code, making it easy for Apple to plop down small improvements on a regular basis.

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