Just 11 weeks into the operation - involving the mightiest military alliance in history - the allies revealed they were beginning to run short of munitions.
With order-books full as exports boomed and with skilled labour starting to run short, the companies co-opted the trade unions by offering training, health care and a job for life.
In the absence of such funding, critical war materiel will begin to run short - jeopardizing the mission, and possibly the lives, of our servicemen and women on the front lines.
But, how does a people hit the reset button when it requires at least 51 percent agreeing to do so and any such systemic reset will always run counter to the short-run interests of some majority agglomeration of minority interests?
And I think that as we strengthen the economy in the short run, we need to do two things at once: We need to strengthen the economy in the short run, and we need to return to a fiscally sustainable path.
In the real market, there is opportunity to build for the long run rather than to exploit short-term opportunities, so the real market has a chance to produce sustainability.
All I can tell you is, I think at this point the right fiscal path for the country is to try to support the economy in the short run, and to do it in a fiscally responsible way, which is over a period of, say, a 10-year window -- which is common -- to have it be paid for.
We just need to figure out how to segue from not squelching our nascent economic recovery in the short run to accepting the fiscal discipline required to control deficits and bring down our national debt.
As a country we need to do four things: We need to stimulate in the short run, cut in the long run, tax to raise revenues, and invest for the future.
Improvements such as introducing self-organizing teams may be tolerated for a period, particularly if they appear to make money in the short run or if they can be used to solve a specific problem.
The Yours survey found grandmothers tended to run away for three short breaks and two longer holidays a year.
Rather, it challenges teams to make short-run and long-run resource allocation decisions in the face of a binding fiscal constraint.
It also expects to run 60% of short-haul services from the airport, up from 55% during the previous five-day stoppage.
After another late start in Chittagong, Mahmudullah and Mushfiqur Rahim shared 108 to help the Tigers to 242, one run short of India's first-innings total.
Flower clipped the ball off his legs to deep square leg and attempted a second run, only to find himself short of his ground when Buttler fired the ball in for wicketkeeper Kieswetter to remove the bails.
But Lee's diagonal run and pass allowed Davies to turn and slide a short pass between the defenders for right-back Steinsson to run on and notch his first goal of the season, his maiden FA Cup strike.
And cutting the budget, while essential in the long run, is only going to hurt the economy in the short run.
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The trouble with all this media noise is that it tends to affect prices negatively in the short run, while stocks are uncertain (that is to say, volatile) over the long run, too.
Even if the pound has further to rise in the short run, its current rate is almost certainly unsustainable.
At first we expected to run this program on a short term basis, to assist the initial wave of homeowners who needed immediate assistance.
Equipped with charging stations at home and at the shopping mall, these cars would be able to run on grid electricity for short trips.
According to Ms. Klein, these tStorms typically run for a short time, some up to two weeks, but there is no limit on time frame.
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Though raising annual contribution limits on retirement accounts may be a laudable goal, it could also leave you with more decisions to make in the short run.
Though it feels easier and safer in the short run to place the blame on unreasonable or incompetent co-workers, it is simply not a useful story to tell ourselves.
Similarly, a tax cut "pays for itself" if the tax cut stimulates enough extra economic growth over the long run to compensate for any short-term revenue reduction that might result.
On a surprisingly mild December day, we left from a marina near the Rockaways, made a short run to the open ocean, and started to drift some 200 yards off the beach.
Replacing the chief executive has been one way Wall Street firms have been signaling to investors that they are trying to fix the situation, but it's unlikely to help in the short run.
Awkwardly, the faster that governments and companies push ahead with reforms to make labour markets more flexible and so boost long-term growth, the weaker consumer spending is likely to be in the short run.
Given all of the factors that contribute to inflation in the short run, this correlation is truly remarkable, but there are near-term deviations in times like this when central banks are fighting deflation trends actively or due to economic swings, currency changes, spikes in oil prices, or other factors.
Experts at Ux Consulting (UxC), which produces what has become the industry standard price index for uranium, noted that while underlying fundamentals remain strong, financial speculation and the possible dumping of supplies into the market could keep prices for the yellow metal suppressed in the short to medium run. (Read Uranium and Nuclear Stocks Feel The Shock Waves Of Fukishima Meltdown).
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