He was 44 years old and Yale trustees hoped he would stay in office for a long, stable period.

The need for time-cues to produce a body clock with a stable 24-hour period has already been described.

During stable periods, the auxiliary processors take no part in the protocol.

"People want to know that the chief executive officer is going to be around for a relatively long, stable period of time," he said.

For some, the death row experience is the stable period of their lives, when they can develop communication and teaching skills.

A stable period followed under the pastoral care of the Augustinians.

Intelligence and technology have developed on the earth about halfway through the stable period in the lifetime of the sun.

He is credited with bringing the school from financial distress into a stable and successful period of growth.

This resulted in a stable period throughout the 1950s.

Since those years, Bolivia has enjoyed one of the most stable economic periods in its history.