America's government, for instance, needs a medium-term plan for deficit reduction, but cutting back spending viciously in the short term at a time of private-sector retrenchment would be a mistake.
The current posture minimizes near-term risk at a time when danger is moderate to low.
Experience also suggests the need for the U.S. military to be prepared to conduct two major long-term operations at a time.
So even if controls on capital outflows can buy time in a short-term panic, it is time bought at a high longer-term price.
Worse, the government now finds itself struggling to put long-term reform in place at a time when the short-term problems are mounting.
It has a very long-term channel that at one time will resolve for a move to highs of the year.
But strikes by BA's cabin crew could cause short-term damage to the airline's traffic figures and longer-term damage to its reputation at a time when airlines are feeling particularly sensitive.
Visiting Caracas ahead of the 2006 election, I met a friend who had recently graduated from a newly established public university which charged its students just 300 bolivars a term, at the time the equivalent of about 15 cents.
So I think what the President and his task force are doing are taking a step forward to help these companies, at the same time expecting a term -- a plan for viability in the future.
How, they ask, can the Fund have long-term involvement in the poorest countries and, at the same time, be a short-term crisis manager?
At this time Gannett is a company at long-term survivability risk.
This comes at a time when long-term yields are at rock bottom levels and if you are a sentiment tracker with a contrarian bent, this would be bullish for stocks.
Friendship was a term that was crucially important at the time because from, really, classic antiquity - from Cicero, Plato, Aristotle forward through the 19th Century - friendship was a central philosophical, political, intellectual concept.
My guess is, you know, if he does - if he runs for a fifth term in 2010, he's probably not going to get a free ride at this time.
The issue is one part of a larger debate over what, if anything, fiscal and monetary policy can do to inspire a short-term rebound and at the same time to encourage longer-term rehabilitation of weak Western economies.
At the time, this seemed a mildly interesting problem at best, one whose long-term fiscal impact was unpredictable.
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Yet at a time when rates are at historic lows, the government continues to rely on short-term financing, taking on tremendous rollover risk.
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In one sense, the activities are short-term in the sense of being about particular product at a particular time, but relational in the sense that the network itself is long lived.
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As a company in a bit of disarray, at a time of drug-sector consolidation, and with Icahn a potential voice for near-term profits, some investors are betting on Biogen as a buyout candidate.
According to the tax code, at the time you make a no-interest term loan, you've made an immediate gift of the present value of the interest you'll forgo over the entire term.
Blakey's move to AIA comes at a crucial time for the FAA. Her term runs out Sept. 13, but the FAA is waiting for Congress to reauthorize its funding, which is supposed to be done by Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year.
In some cases they are paid for term-time work only, in others they get at least a retainer over the holidays.
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The NLRA does not require an election at the end of a designated term such as a given time period or after the expiration of a contract to allow workers to decide whether they want to continue being represented by the incumbent union or not.
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Those two LTROs (longer-term refinancing operations) were successful in cowing the markets, at least for a time.
"Stores continue to trade and at this time we remain hopeful of securing a long-term future for HMV as a going concern, " said Nick Edwards, joint administrator at Deloitte.
Let the well-to-do think the tax increase will come for them so they will take their long term capital gains this year at the lower tax rates, raising a huge one time windfall of tax revenues.
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This is much more likely at the beginning of a new term in office, as hopefully by the time the next elections come around a good part of the transition has already taken place and labor markets are strong again.
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An important limitation of surveying MBA students at the time of graduation is that short-term annoyances such as a low grade or difficulty finding the right job can cause a few students to give the school a low rating, causing the student ratings of the school to plummet.
At that time, I also expected to see a short-term bounce as a result of all the heavy selling and the recent increase in bearish sentiment.
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And now is as good of a time as any, at the start of my second term, because if we continue down this path, then there's really no stopping the principle.
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