Whether the short-term benefits of cutting a deal with a tyrant outweigh the long-term costs depends on circumstances.
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In fact, I devote whole chapters to the short-term benefits of protecting military, police, medical and other sensitive records.
While a program like Virgin's offers employees some short-term benefits, it may have less impact on a company's overall effectiveness, he says.
The short-term benefits of the discovery were stated (if implicitly) in the piece: a large amount of energy produced domestically at affordable prices.
But since such controls deter future foreign investors and distort domestic financial markets, their long-term costs seem likely to outweigh their short-term benefits.
Because Wall St. often rewards cost cutting measures with a temporary bump in stock price, fiscally conservative CEOs tend to focus on short-term benefits for all the wrong reasons.
In other words, the short-term benefits of President Bush's conventional forces proposal will almost certainly be more than offset by the long-term damage done by the erosion it entails in the Western negotiating position.
Such leaders can be expected to exercise much more international centric decision making and feel much less need to subordinate the long-term interests of the U.S. over those of other countries offering better short-term benefits.
Even the short-term benefits to farmers of the current generation of genetically engineered crops are in question (though since Monsanto imposes by contract a rule of silence on its customers, details have been slow to emerge).
My final warning is not to become a CEO who sacrifices long-term shareholder equity considerations for short-term financial benefits.
Traditionally, losing weight has required short-term sacrifices for long-term benefits.
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Nokia has not broadly participated in the recent aggressive pricing activity, as it believes that the negative impact to profitability would outweigh any short-term incremental benefits to device unit sales.
Whatever the long-term benefits, the short-term effects on confidence and on economic growth will be damaging.
And Richard Sosis, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut, has already done some research which suggests that the long-term co-operative benefits of religion outweigh the short-term costs it imposes in the form of praying many times a day, avoiding certain foods, fasting and so on.
One area facing possible cuts in the short-term are universal benefits such as child benefit and the winter fuel payment.
If fiscal reforms are undertaken jointly, the short-term sacrifices may be surprisingly light, and the long-term benefits may arrive surprisingly early.
Infinitely more important (and putting aside whatever short-term, transient economic benefits may ensue) is the fact that easy money policies guarantee economic busts, and the larger the monetary largesse fostered by such policies, the larger the bust.
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Internal rate of return for instance focuses attention on short term costs and benefits and discounts medium-term costs and benefits (like staying in business) so that they appear almost irrelevant.
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Whatever the long-term benefits of political change, the short-term cost, in investment and the economy, will be big.
Disability living allowance, however, is expected to remain separate, with the new system allowing carers to take part-time or short-term work without losing their benefits.
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Indeed, the Polish case demonstrates the wisdom of refraining from the sort of bail-outs often recommended by those in the West motivated by such considerations as sentiment, short-term trade or domestic political benefits unless and until an actual transfer of political and economic power takes place.
European unemployment insurance could be limited to topping up benefits for short-term jobless.
Banks need to arrest the slide with a combination of freethinking, wise action and prudent policies that put long-term benefits over short term interests.
Applicants can face delays in reclaiming their benefits when short-term jobs come to an end, potentially leaving them out of pocket, the report said.
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These benefits include short-term gains in the emotional or cognitive development of the child, improvements in educational outcomes, reduced levels of criminal activity, and improvements in health-related indicators, such as child abuse.
Balancing between the benefits of short-term political capital and long-term economic risks will not be easy, particularly when the president is already struggling to revive the economy as investment flows are declining and domestic consumption remains weak.
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In effect, young Italians are finding themselves trapped in the lower tier of a two-tier labour market that was created in 2003, when Silvio Berlusconi's government first allowed employers to offer short-term contracts with few of the benefits or guarantees of permanent employees.
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To reap the long-term benefits of financial reform, China must endure the short-term pain of a severe credit crunch--just as it needs to support industry to curb labor unrest.
Furthermore, we think that the market is too focused on the short-term synergies of the merger and has not priced in the long-term benefits.
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They can staff up for short-term projects without the expense of healthcare and other benefits.
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