Drastic short-term change could be hugely expensive and therefore politically unsustainable in the absence of a strong scientific consensus about its urgency.
The largest volcanoes might cause short-term climate change profound enough to reduce agricultural production precipitously in many places at once.
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The ups and downs of a short-term price change tends to cancel out, leaving a price that reflects the financial soundness of U.S. corporations.
Looking at the whole field of climate-conflict studies, he said, a key was to understand the reality of what might link short- or long-term climatic change to outbreaks of conflict.
"We can differentiate short-term variation from long-term patterns of change, making ECN sites invaluable to investigate the health of the ecosystems we rely on, " he added.
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Whatever the long-term benefits of political change, the short-term cost, in investment and the economy, will be big.
As plenty of highly leveraged borrowers learned in the crisis, hefty short-term funding can change from a profit engine to a huge liability overnight.
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Why that is not about trumped-up short-term efficiency savings or thoughtless crisis cuts - but is about long-term change, long-term change that involves reducing the demands on the state by fixing our broken society and long term change that means increasing the productivity of the state by reforming our public services.
But that may require the International Monetary Fund - which operates programmes of short-term loans to aid countries in immediate financial difficulties - to change some of the conditions of its lending, which have in the past endorsed financial orthodoxy.
While short-term and long-term planning are key to daily success, anticipating and effectively dealing with change is an invaluable competency to be mastered.
Such programs have a way of producing a short-term glow and not much lasting change.
Vahan Janjigian , editor of Forbes Growth Investor, believes the likely short-term consequence of a successful regime change in Iraq would be an oil glut--not a shortage.
It is also hard to see how repeated demands for short-term subsidies support the process of change necessary for farming businesses to meet the increasing challenges of the global marketplace.
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While the probability of China using strategic IW is low at present or in the short-term, the political context may change sufficiently in the future to warrant caution and preparation on the part of the United States.
Meanwhile, central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan says the country should "sacrifice" short-term growth for long-term economic change to rebalance the economy away from a reliance on exports and toward more domestic consumption.
Hard-to-sell long-term securities had been bought with short-lived debt, which left borrowers vulnerable to a change in sentiment every time the debt fell due.
This would allow traders and active investors to begin trading the fund from the long side for a change, taking advantage of short-term weakness rather than short-term strength as the bull market in FXI is restored.
The stock is not technically overbought in the short-term, though any week-ending gains could easily change that.
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Most "regime change" operations have achieved their short-term goals.
Participants who see prices further decaying noted the change in trader attitude and a bearish short-term momentum for gold.
Is the only objection that the President has to something that the Senate does to change the Boehner bill would be the short-term extension?
To put it another way, the rich lead the decline in fertility, producing a short-term increase in income inequality as they capture the benefits of demographic change first.
In the short-term Mr Mas demands a radical, but initially financially neutral, change to the tax system allowing his government to collect taxes and send them to Madrid, rather than the other way around.
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The decline appears due mostly to speculative short-term trading and possibly, sales by banks rather than any fundamental change in the nature of a resource that has consistently been treasured as a store of value since civilization began.
That is how an ostensible battle over a relatively small amount of short-term spending has morphed into a battle around using appropriations riders to change policy by denying additional funding or repealing existing funding for targeted programs and agency activities.
She said it was possible that the change to inflammatory markers produced in sleep deprivation experiments were merely short-term reflections of the battle against sleepiness.
He said the policy was part of his plan to "change the way our country works" and end the "short-term, fast-buck economy" - a theme he said would dominate his set-piece speech to conference on Tuesday.
Over time the industry will need to change according to consumer demands but it may be possible that in short-term media companies will have their way.
The US and China, aided by others, have acted in their short-term political interest thinking they will be able to "manage" their way out of climate change.
It will take a board of directors that can overcome internal schisms, its natural aversion to risk and a focus on the next quarter and similar pressures by short-term investors to put its faith in the kind of leader who can be a positive force for change.
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