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.
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.
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.
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