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.
The White House signalled last week it approved of the short-term measure that would avoid the prospect of default.
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.
Well, what else would be expected from a short-term stimulus measure supporting construction projects?
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Mr. McConnell pointed out that, in the short-term federal spending measure passed in December, Republicans left out funding to hire workers to implement the health overhaul.
Short-term approaches like the recent debt-ceiling measure and now Obama's push on the sequester cuts allows more time for negotiations on a possible broader deal that would address all issues at once.
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Also use utmost caution if considering short-term temporary health coverage intended as a stop-gap measure.
In Arkansas, where conditions are the driest they've been since 1925, according to one widely used measure of short-term drought, ranchers have been selling off cattle to avoid having to feed and water them, said Arkansas Department of Agriculture spokesman Zach Taylor.
The number of short-term jobless claims yet another unemployment measure went up the day before the unemployment rate went down.
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.
M3, its favoured measure of money supply, are incorrect: distorted, it says, by short-term euro-denominated debt held by investors outside the euro area.
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.
Bringing home the crown prince so abruptly - a measure designed to reassure global markets and Saudi allies - may only work for the short term.
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