Instead, they are attempting to justify their short-to-middle-term escalation of the war there by placing it in the context of a longer struggle against al-Qaida and all forms of extremism.
The euro-enthusiasts also forget that the euro was launched in the middle of a long-term dollar bull market.
Some papers show outrage at the threats against Mr Lerner's life, others accuse the 'caviares' - a term used to ridicule middle-class liberals - of fishing for public sympathy.
One of the most critical steps we can take is to reduce the deficit in a balanced way in order to lay the foundation for long-term middle-class job growth.
Time Warner Cable, the U.S.' second-largest operator, says it has no plans to switch to TV Guide Interactive from the Scientific-Atlanta and Pioneer guides it now uses even though its parent AOL is in the middle of a long-term license agreement with Gemstar.
While many people think of Medicaid as just a poverty program, it also funds long-term care costs for millions of middle-class retirees who have been forced to essentially impoverish themselves to qualify for long-term care coverage.
Right now in the all-important oil world of the Middle East and North Africa, short-term supply, future prices, ownership and preferred trading partners are all up in the air.
We remain in the middle stages of a long-term bull market for gold.
It is a term my middle-class tribe uses disparagingly to make us feel better about being educated, but comparatively poor.
In the Middle East, the long-term contract wins in Saudi Arabia and the rapidly increasing upstream activity in Iraq should help the company post strong numbers.
Long-term unemployment among middle-aged professionals, who do not qualify for workfare, is on the rise, says Leong Sze Hian, a financial expert and blogger.
In his opening speech on 9 December 2011, the Archbishop of Canterbury said that the church was not seeking a "privileged position" for Christians in the Middle East but a "long-term hope that the communities will have a guaranteed place in their homelands".
So ... if we get to the point where there is a conviction and sentencing, the judge would have the discretion at that point to give multiple consecutive sentences, and the limits on the judge at that point are one-third of the middle term, which would be an additional two years.
More important, the key group leaving New York and other so-called "youth-magnets" comprises the middle class, particularly families, critical to any long-term urban revival.
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The middle ground may be that while long-term price movements are random, over shorter periods, trends that attract investment dollars emerge.
Nathan Parnaby, chief executive of Asia and Emerging Markets for Standard Life, said the company's long-term vision in the Middle East was to build a leading retail savings and investments business.
Solar Frontier, a start-up company based in Tokyo, Japan selling leading-edge solar CIS technology, is opening an office in Khobar, Saudi Arabia to strengthen its position in the emerging solar-power market in the Middle East, which it has described as a strategic priority for long-term growth.
"It was a completely a burger crowd, " said Ms. Mansuri, using a slang term for the affluent, middle-class voters who tend to support PTI.
The expense-cutting push is risky, Brown says, because of the complexity of the bank's operations and the lack of guarantees that cutting costs in the middle and back offices will fix things long-term.
Under this new geographical delineation, the term Chianti would be all-encompassing and refer to the entire region in the middle of Tuscany, rather like the umbrella term Bordeaux.
But the component parts -- cutting taxes for middle-class families, cutting taxes for small businesses that are hiring our veterans and hiring the long-term unemployed, putting teachers back in the classroom -- here in the state of Hawaii, you have a bunch of kids who are going to school four days a week because of budget problems.
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And it represents his belief about how we can achieve the kind of revenue that's necessary for a balanced package in a way that ensures that we don't put all the burden for long-term deficit reduction on seniors or the middle class or other vulnerable communities.
While worries in the Middle East have caused a spike, oil prices face longer-term pressure due to increased demand from China and other emerging economies.
The guru who got a first-term U.S. senator with a middle name of Hussein elected president was pushed yesterday through a trap door into a much different world.
The relative performance is positive as it tested its long-term uptrend, line c, in the middle of September and moved back above its WMA when XLV was peaking.
Meanwhile demand for places continues to climb, driven, in the short-term, by a lack of jobs for school-leavers in the struggling economy and, in the long-term, by the growth of the aspirational middle class.
This is an important moment not just to avoid the fiscal cliff but to lay the groundwork for an economy that will support a healthy middle class, restore economic certainty, and lead to long-term job growth.
And the only way to do that is to lay a new foundation for long-term economic growth and finally address the struggles that middle-class families have been grappling with for years.
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The Obama administration has based medium and long-term strategy for job growth on expansion of the middle class, by advancing policies designed to widen opportunities and toughen workplace protections for employees.
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