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It's common for folks to look at bonds as a ballast at times when stocks aren't doing as well, for the average investor, fixed income can serve an important function. – Eddy Vataru	Found on CNN 4 years ago
As long as China and the United States proactively meet each other halfway, then trade and economic cooperation can still play a role as a ballast stone in Sino-U.S. ties. – State Councillor Wang Yi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Just hearing the words you know are true can serve as ballast, steadying your mind when so much seems unreal. – Mona Charen	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The built sites provide ballast and cashflow, it becomes real at the very beginning and that turns this from an announcement in to a genuine fund with genuine cash. – Brett Redman	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
If we can get the density of this instrument just right, it will sit neither sinking nor floating. Now that's easy to say but it's actually a considerable challenge to do... They weigh about 100 kilograms and we need to ballast them to approximately better than one gram. So that's a considerable challenge. The way that we do that is by putting them in tanks of water... and adding weights until they're just sinking; at which point we know they have the same density as the water that they're sitting in. – Professor Richard Sanders	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. – William Penn	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast. – Minna Antrim	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 13 years ago

It's common for folks to look at bonds as a ballast at times when stocks aren't doing as well, for the average investor, fixed income can serve an important function.

– Eddy Vataru

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As long as China and the United States proactively meet each other halfway, then trade and economic cooperation can still play a role as a ballast stone in Sino-U.S. ties.

– State Councillor Wang Yi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Just hearing the words you know are true can serve as ballast, steadying your mind when so much seems unreal.

– Mona Charen

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The built sites provide ballast and cashflow, it becomes real at the very beginning and that turns this from an announcement in to a genuine fund with genuine cash.

– Brett Redman

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

If we can get the density of this instrument just right, it will sit neither sinking nor floating. Now that's easy to say but it's actually a considerable challenge to do... They weigh about 100 kilograms and we need to ballast them to approximately better than one gram. So that's a considerable challenge. The way that we do that is by putting them in tanks of water... and adding weights until they're just sinking; at which point we know they have the same density as the water that they're sitting in.

– Professor Richard Sanders

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

– William Penn

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

– Minna Antrim

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life

– Henry David Thoreau

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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