When I compare Blackberry, and Amazon I see two companies at either end of this spectrum, one performing to please an investment community and executing to achieve some short term measure of success, and another that is less interested in that, but is more focused on a long term plan for the consumer.
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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 three-cone drill is used to measure short-area quickness, which is a key attribute in Houston's zone-blocking offense.
The White House signalled last week it approved of the short-term measure that would avoid the prospect of default.
Meanwhile, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he'd veto what he called a short-sighted measure that would be bad for the city's economy.
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.
Among public and nonprofit institutions, only 18% of schools fell short of the same measure.
Well, what else would be expected from a short-term stimulus measure supporting construction projects?
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In the short run, the measure will benefit many students across the nation.
Last time proponents of the same-sex marriage ban fell 12 votes short of getting the measure on the floor for full consideration.
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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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.
Investment in original programming will depend on incremental benefit, which may be hard to measure in the short term.
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But the measure would stop short -- for now -- of sanctioning any unilateral U.S. military strike against Iraq.
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.
The measure did produce a short term increase in economic activity, says the CBO.
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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.
An aide told CNN that Reid decided to cancel the test vote when it became clear the measure would fall well short of the 60 votes needed.
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That started happening in 2006, when Dr Jiao developed a technique called time-series observation-based infra-red epifluorescence microscopy, or TIREM for short, that is able to measure the amount of AAPB in the oceans accurately.
The ban, though hailed by a UK minister as the most significant measure in years, stops short of what the commission had been asking.
Hours later, he passed the key budget measure with 308 votes, seven short of a majority, as 321 lawmakers abstained.
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The NFL is difficult to measure simply because the season is so short compared to other pro sports.
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The number of short-term jobless claims yet another unemployment measure went up the day before the unemployment rate went down.
Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine and one of the bill's primary co-sponsors, will support the measure, but that leaves Reid six votes short.
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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But in the end, 32 Republicans voted with Democrats on the measure, passing it 256-166 -- short of a veto-proof majority, however.
The long term effects are going to be greater than the short (because of capital substitution) but how we would measure those no one is really sure.
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