All 5 Uses
equilibrium
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The Tipping Point
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- When there were 36,000 patient visits a year in the STD clinics of Baltimore's inner city, in other words, the disease was kept in equilibrium.†
Chpt 1 *equilibrium = balance
- It takes only the smallest of changes to shatter an epidemic's equilibrium.†
Chpt 1
- And when an epidemic tips, when it is jolted out of equilibrium, it tips because something has happened, some change has occurred in one (or two or three) of those areas.†
Chpt 1
- Companies can continue at that level indefinitely, in a state of low-level equilibrium, serving a small but loyal audience.†
Chpt 6
- Somehow, within the space of a year or two, Airwalk was jolted out of its quiet equilibrium on the beaches of southern California, in the mid-1990s, Airwalk tipped.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(equilibrium) a stable situation in which forces are in balance
or:
a person's sense of physical or emotional balance - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)