noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
peace and stability
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The people of Congo richly deserve peace and stability.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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And so, in the name of economic development and stability , they endorse authoritarian measures to control protesters.
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Paradoxically, it has not even been able to undermine the relative economic stability of the imperialist countries.
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Mr. Lord Does my right hon. Friend agree that the best method for underpinning democracy is through economic stability ?
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During times of economic and political stability , on-the-field sports violence allows for tension release, through vicarious identification with the aggressor.
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Only a strong central authority could guarantee internal peace and economic stability .
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Mrs. Chalker My hon. Friend is right: economic stability is the only foundation for the sound development of democracy.
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The nation-state holds, but nationalist mentalities are a constant threat to regional economic and political stability .
emotional
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The chronic phase shows progressive deterioration in emotional stability so that relationships become progressively damaged.
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There is also the need for emotional stability .
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Determination. 10. Emotional stability . 11.
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The image of intellectual and emotional self-control and stability projected by Nizan was fragile.
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Financial security is high on your list of priorities, as are emotional stability , commitment and loyalty in relationships.
financial
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Under conditions of hyper-inflation no factory manager has either capital or financial stability to invest in any kind of serious modernisation.
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Devoted to public order and financial stability , he presided over and accelerated the collapse of both.
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This move at least gave greater financial stability .
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So much for promoting financial stability .
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Finally, apart from achieving financial stability , what are your long term aims?
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It is not the amount of money we earn which determines our financial stability , but the way we spend it.
great
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Other forms of backstairs succession may be more peaceful but do not indicate much greater governmental stability .
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In concrete operations, reasoning and thought acquire greater stability than prevails in preoperational thought.
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This move at least gave greater financial stability .
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Scheduled for release in mid-1998, Rhapsody promises even greater stability , still more networking support and a host of other features.
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Lifetime employment gives employees greater career stability , and tends to contribute to better industrial relations.
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This demonstrates the Aurora's great stability .
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It has certainly not led to a greater family stability .
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The realignment of exchange rates discussed above might suggest that it has not been very successful in promoting greater exchange rate stability .
internal
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However, the Arab states also wished to escape the political impact of the refugee presence upon their own internal stability .
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Moreover, neutrality favoured the internal political stability which, as we noted earlier, was of prime concern to Franco.
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Such cohesion was dependent also on all member countries achieving through their economic and monetary policies further convergence towards internal stability .
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This filling gives a high level of insulation and offers good internal stability .
monetary
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By definition monetary stability has two dimensions: a price and an exchange rate dimension.
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Again frustrated, the two were ripe for the monetary stability Clive Davis could offer.
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The policy of economic rigour and monetary stability , which had kept inflation to around 3 percent, would nevertheless be maintained.
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Countries with the greatest monetary stability , it admitted, keep their central banks free of political control.
political
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Did political stability justify the pretensions and excesses of his republican monarchy?
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The nation-state holds, but nationalist mentalities are a constant threat to regional economic and political stability .
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The country's reputation for political stability and banking secrecy still brings in footloose cash from trouble-spots around the world.
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Surely this could not explain more than two decades of political stability .
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It means political stability in that corner of the world.
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Hopes that political stability will encourage a bout of takeover activity, directed attention at all the old bid chestnuts.
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During times of economic and political stability , on-the-field sports violence allows for tension release, through vicarious identification with the aggressor.
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At the same time the prospects for political and economic stability in the Soviet Union continue to fade.
regional
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They all oppose the creation of an independent Kurdish state, and their political manoeuvring has not helped regional stability .
relative
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This is partly true-which explains the relative stability the Czech Republic enjoyed in the first half of the 1990s.
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Paradoxically, it has not even been able to undermine the relative economic stability of the imperialist countries.
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It had been designed in a period of relative economic stability and was not fitted for such tumultuous times.
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The overwhelming reasons cited were the economic progress and develop-ment under his regime, and its relative stability .
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Both latter categories suggest the relative stability of the York economy in 1899.
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The decline of the relative stability and growth of world capitalism that marked the 1950s and the early 1960s.
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The country's relative stability has tempted some people to return from overseas.
social
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Both currents of revisionist work, then, contradict liberal optimism about the prospects of social stability in the countryside.
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The male pattern is the enemy of social stability .
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Many of the squatter settlements exhibit high levels of social organisation and stability rather than marginal characteristics.
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Moreover, marriage promotes social stability and creates a spiritual, physical and emotional bond between two people.
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This may be related to a relative lack of social stability: being more frequently single and in less permanent accommodation.
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Social institutions are interdependent and social stability is achieved through gradual and minor accommodations.
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Obviously, the existence of such ties and their translation into present day activity is dependent on geographical and social stability .
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Here was a period when a universally accepted order could be discovered with a resulting social and political stability .
■ NOUN
price
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The regulation of money supply may be used by governments to achieve specific economic objectives, e.g. full employment or price stability .
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Flat or falling prices for key commodities also signal price stability , and slower growth.
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Sterling was linked to gold and the gold standard ensured price stability .
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We need an economy that is dedicated to price stability .
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The most effective proven mechanism to achieve price stability is an independent central bank dedicated to that objective.
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For this reason fears have been expressed that rising house prices pose a major threat to price stability generally.
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Our aims must be: To achieve price stability .
rate
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John Smith's devotion to the cause of exchange rate stability is not the symbol of virtue which many mistake it for.
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Both ministers said exchange-\#rate stability would depend on national fiscal policies.
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The realignment of exchange rates discussed above might suggest that it has not been very successful in promoting greater exchange rate stability .
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These cover inflation, budget deficits, exchange rate stability and long-term interest rates.
■ VERB
achieve
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The most effective proven mechanism to achieve price stability is an independent central bank dedicated to that objective.
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The gas spuds drillings are arranged to achieve flame stability .
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Subsistence economies sometimes achieve a low-grade stability by the very poverty of the general standard of living.
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Our aims must be: To achieve price stability .
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The inhabitants of the shanty towns have frequently achieved stability and social organisation through the establishment of personal networks and voluntary associations.
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Finally, apart from achieving financial stability , what are your long term aims?
bring
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But the political situation has not brought stability .
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We will keep our rates at around £140-£150, which will, I believe, help bring some stability .
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In those days I brought about stability and made laws.
ensure
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The organization is free to use any available social mechanisms to enforce compliance and ensure its own stability . 5.
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Adhering to these chains guaranteed by paternal law that by saying no to fusion ensures their stability , thus guarantees stable identity.
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The government's overriding concern to ensure domestic stability ruled out the possibility of landless Emancipation.
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It will recognize the critical role of that Treaty in ensuring military security and stability .
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Special precautions were taken to ensure the stability of the track during excavation for the foundations of the structure.
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The perceived need to ensure stability in society took precedence over fairness and justice.
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It has the task of ensuring the stability and efficiency of the financial system.
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To ensure frequency stability , make R3 much greater than R1 and use a high-quality feedback capacitor.
give
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An extended arm supports the microscope head giving stability whilst allowing room for large boards to be examined.
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The purposes of the additives are to give stability , dispersion, texture, and even flow.
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The research will analyse the changing structure of leadership and the conditions which give rise to political stability and instability.
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The crossed poles structure gives the stability you need to cope with high winds, together with a good space to weight ration.
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This move at least gave greater financial stability .
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The recoil gives you added stability , but you must take care that it doesn't thrust you backwards and off balance.
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Lifetime employment gives employees greater career stability , and tends to contribute to better industrial relations.
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In Parsons' view, the modern family deals only with the socialization of children and gives stability to adult personalities.
guarantee
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However, such achievements do not guarantee stability .
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In addition, feedforward nets are guaranteed to reach stability .
improve
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The model 214-2F research biomass monitor has increased sensitivity, improved long-term stability and reduced effect of gas hold-up in fermenters.
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Flare An outsole which is wider at the heel than the midsole - designed to improve stability .
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Mostly, the drag and attendant weight of the line actually improves stability of a single line kite.
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But the swingarm has been lengthened for improved high-speed stability and has a quick-release mechanism for the rear wheel.
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Tail shapes have been added to extend the central vee and improve stability in pitch.
maintain
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They will therefore consider how stratification systems help to maintain order and stability in society.
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However some equipment may have to be left on, perhaps to maintain stability .
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In the past, society had maintained a degree of stability and hierarchy.
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If Ben took drugs to maintain his mental stability there was little he, Li Shai Tung, could do about it.
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Switches of this kind maintain the stability of complex metabolic systems without altering the numbers or kinds of enzyme molecules present.
need
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I need stability which I don't think we have had here for three seasons.
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The bullpen needs stability after blowing 56-of-112 save opportunities the past two years.
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They will also need more stability and higher performance to make the jump.
offer
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Since Gloucester's arrival in London he had seemed to offer the stability which the council wanted.
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Mini size offers stability and compactness.
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Conventionality in a system of communication offers stability , and thereby makes communication feasible from one occasion to the next.
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Blanche realises that she is becoming old and seeks some one who can offer her stability .
promote
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The realignment of exchange rates discussed above might suggest that it has not been very successful in promoting greater exchange rate stability .
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Moreover, marriage promotes social stability and creates a spiritual, physical and emotional bond between two people.
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So much for promoting financial stability .
provide
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It provides the stability of psychological reinforcement.
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It provided stability , a particularly important quality after the Depression.
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It was the women, in fact, who provided stability for this new type of community.
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One new service is child care, which can free parents to look for permanent housing and provide stability for youngsters.
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The upwards and outwards inclination of the kite either side of centre is what provides lateral stability .
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Sandie and B provide the stability .
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What provides stability to the fickleness of love is the material framework of marriage.
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In the face of these contradictions, she must provide a blanket of stability , which warms but does not suffocate.
restore
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The devaluation of the lira did help restore some sense of stability to other parts of the financial system.
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President Fidel Ramos welcomed the accord as a step towards restoring political stability to the country, a precondition for economic revival.
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The opposition had imposed a deadline of Aug. 31 for Nabiyev to restore stability or resign.
threaten
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To do so would have threatened the stability of Franco's position and was, therefore, out of the question.
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The nether side of meaning, the storehouse of representations that do not fit the current Symbolic order, threatens this stability .
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Unconstrained elite dissensus threatens political stability under certain specific conditions.
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Urban pressure for leisure access to the countryside also threatens the ecological stability of many areas.
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It is not your job to worry about whether you threaten the stability of the world economy.
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Walesa's critics had accused him of dangerous populism which threatened political and economic stability .
undermine
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A test ban that could not inspire confidence would undermine stability and might even provoke a new arms race.
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Paradoxically, it has not even been able to undermine the relative economic stability of the imperialist countries.
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This leads to adhoc government intervention which in turn may undermine the consistency and stability of objectives still further.
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Sudden and infrequent changes of many inputs clearly undermine stability .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Our relationship provided the stability and comfort we both needed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both ministers said exchange-rate stability would depend on national fiscal policies.
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Its stability needs and signalling capability are shown.
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So school becomes a sanctuary, a haven of stability , hot food and teachers who care.
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The products may differ in the stability of the foam.
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There has been an emphasis on, and lauding of, the continuity and stability .
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Veteran goalie Mike Vernon, the offseason acquisition made to return stability to the San Jose goal, was off his game.
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Was there confidence, I asked, about stability ?