So-called "ventricular support" devices are nothing new, but the previously cumbersome size meant that they could only remain in the patient for only a few months, so were used as a short-term measure to keep desperately ill patients alive until a transplant organ could be found.
Republicans should have, in our view, done what they had done just a few months before, which is pass a short-term measure to delay implementation of the sequester, a measure that would have represented the balance that the public supports, asking the well-off and well-to-do to pay a little bit, not just seniors and middle-class families, and that then regular order could have continued as it is now, but without the sequester.
But it said passing a short-term measure added "unnecessary complications" and "needlessly" perpetuated fiscal uncertainty.
It is only a short-term measure, admits Gunter Reck, an adviser to the recently created environmental ministry.
Meanwhile, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he'd veto what he called a short-sighted measure that would be bad for the city's economy.
Well, what else would be expected from a short-term stimulus measure supporting construction projects?
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The measure did produce a short term increase in economic activity, says the CBO.
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The Senate took a procedural vote that fell seven votes short of the 60 needed to cut off a filibuster on the measure.
That is one reason that our measure if innovation prowess is a weight average over five years this stabilizes the measure for short term swings.
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There will also be a short report stage debate on the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill - a technical measure.
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The three-cone drill is used to measure short-area quickness, which is a key attribute in Houston's zone-blocking offense.
Hours later, he passed the key budget measure with 308 votes, seven short of a majority, as 321 lawmakers abstained.
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Also use utmost caution if considering short-term temporary health coverage intended as a stop-gap measure.
The ban, though hailed by a UK minister as the most significant measure in years, stops short of what the commission had been asking.
This will provide a significant measure of relief in caring for senior women living in areas short on physicians.
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But in the end, 32 Republicans voted with Democrats on the measure, passing it 256-166 -- short of a veto-proof majority, however.
Regardless, Robison won't be looking at Cisco's short-term results as much as its outlook for future quarters, a measure he says ties in closely with trends in the U.S. economy.
Net cash is a traditional measure of excess cash and is calculated by totaling cash, marketable securities and short-term investments, and subtracting current liabilities.
"We do view the bill reported out of the committee as lacking real reform, " says Agriculture Deputy Secretary Chuck Conner, noting that it "falls far short of where we need to be" in order to call the measure a reform-minded bill.
Bringing home the crown prince so abruptly - a measure designed to reassure global markets and Saudi allies - may only work for the short term.
With experience in short supply, the result is a showcase of individual brilliance and boneheaded mistakes, often in equal measure.
But the investment business seems to find any measure better than none even if it turns out to be a few inches short of a yardstick.
That measure soared by 74% from 1980 to 2004, an unprecedented gain in that short of a period.
For a long time, even as the Federal Reserve pushed short term interest rates to very low levels, the broad measure of money, M2, grew only around 5 percent per year.
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Worst of all, it sets up yet another fiscal crisis in just a few months when, in short order, the federal government reaches its legal borrowing limit and yet another temporary measure keeping government agencies operating expires.
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In short, thanks in no small measure to Jimmy Carter's proclivities and meddling, the world is a considerably more dangerous place.
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