But Blair would do well to keep the first half of his prime ministerial career as short as possible.
An essential element in that strategy is an attempt to ensure that the inevitable blame game being played out between the political parties is kept as short as possible.
In his thought-provoking Fashion: A Philosophy, philosopher Lars Svendsen emphasises the cyclical aspect of fashion, stating that the business is now driven by the principle of making those cycles as short as possible.
Because we've got on the one hand Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and so on, saying that they're holding their, holding their support together for this battle would be much helped if it's a short war, as short as possible and so on.
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He did not set a date, but said it would be "preferable to have as short a campaign as possible" and hold the vote in the minimum three months.
He said it disclosed "a manic and frenzied culture of procuring and packaging as many mortgages as humanly possible, to maintain the bonds spewing from the investment bank, to generate as much short-term profit as humanly possible".
It argued Newton Abbot Hospital had "the latest facilities to help make an inpatient stay as comfortable, safe, pain-free and short as possible".
"They are maintained for as short a time as possible and we ask people visiting the city centre to co-operate with us to ensure the continued success of large events such in our capital, " he added.
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Instead, many bosses have responded, entirely rationally, by trying to sweat as much return in as short a time as they can manage from as little equity as possible.
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But, ultimately, Budget day is all about the Chancellor: Raising as much short term cheer for his party as possible and setting, or maintaining, some long term direction.
The goal was to collect as many good cards as possible in an unspecified short period of time (all trials actually lasted ten minutes).
Mr. ROBERT GATES (U.S. Secretary of Defense): The current operation must be as short and as precisely targeted as possible.
The Magpies have been in the Premier League for all but one season since its inception in 1992, and now face a challenge to return there within as short a space of time as possible.
Officials from the Russian Investigative Committee said they are looking at poor fire regulations and short circuit as possible causes for the hospital fire in the Ramenskoye settlement.
If I were to attempt to logically dissect either of these companies, I would not only stay as a far away from them as possible, I would likely be looking to short them to my own detriment.
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Economists attempt to make the fudge factor as grounded in reality as possible, but instrumental variable analysis inevitably requires the analyst to give short shrift to the hard data and make assumptions about the differences between two populations, and how external factors (like insurance status) affect them.
Friedman said one way to grow the economy faster is to cut spending as much as possible in the short term.
The creation of a clean energy economy has to be made as swiftly and carefully as possible, to ensure that what it takes to grow this economy in the short, medium, and long term is no longer delayed.
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The takeaway is that economists should stress the cosmopolitan, and instead of dismissing cosmopolitanism as merely implying untenable open borders we should be focusing on how to create immigration policies short of open borders take as much advantage as possible of these trillion dollar bills.
I'll try to keep my answer relatively short, so I can answer as many questions as possible, because we have a limited amount of time.
In the short term, NATO hopes that with more Afghan units and extra American troops, perhaps helped by a possible short-term deployment of as many as 10, 000 more European soldiers, it will be able to secure enough of the populated areas in the restive Pushtun belt to ensure a credible presidential election in August.
Short-term greedy types are solely interested in making as much money as possible right now and are likely willing to cut corners.
Data can be moved in and out of the chip at speeds of up to 10 megabits per second - far faster than is possible with other short-range radio systems such as Bluetooth or Radio Frequency ID tags.
Some compromise is still possible, such as Korea-type roll-overs of short-term debt.
One area facing possible cuts in the short-term are universal benefits such as child benefit and the winter fuel payment.
In the short term, Apple is obviously going to try to ban as many infringing products as possible - they would be stupid not to.
It is also possible that Mr Fourtou wants Cegetel purely for short-term cashflow, as he decides what kind of company Vivendi should be.
The House needs to pass a short-term version of this compromise, and then we should negotiate an agreement as quickly as possible to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance for the rest of 2012.
Larger insurers should find it easier to budget for possible losses, just as they have been better able to bear a performance falling short of guaranteed returns.
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Specifically designed to take advantage of the camera's mirrorless design, the X-Mount has a short flange back distance of just 17.7mm made possible by designing the mount ring as thin as 2.5mm.
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