Even her most devoted supporters say that she could be short with people, curtly cutting them off in mid-sentence.
And we must all hope and pray that the war will be short with minimum casualties and an outcome that helps to secure a better world.
Short term realities need to be addressed with short-term solutions.
Those problems - he says - can't be tackled with short term patching up of the existing ageing infrastructure.
Kenyans and East Africans in general tend to be short and slender with large natural lung capacity and a preponderance of slow twitch muscles.
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With every one of his reviews, his TV appearances, his tweets, Roger shared with us one lesson: Life is too short not to be shared with others.
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However this may be a short term fix with longer term consequences.
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One hundred million people in the world may soon be short of food, with the spike in some commodity prices in part to blame.
From the Wall Street point of view, this week will be short-lived, with the U.S. Independence Day holiday on Wednesday and most people taking the rest of the week off.
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Finally, in the event that your new investments skyrocket in value (in excess of your capital losses), you will have to wait a year to sell or be stuck with higher-taxed short-term capital gains next year. (You should be so lucky).
One small ray of light came with news that the immediate, short-term future could be secured with a bridging loan of just 150m euros, compared with earlier estimates of a 230m euro loan.
If the rye craze turns out to be a short-lived fad, companies will be faced with a glut of rye.
Broadly speaking, short-term Treasuries can be expected to have more in common with money market rates than long-term Treasuries, but deciding which short-term Treasuries match up best with money market rates can be a tricky thing.
Those effects would be short lived, though, with a Romney push for fiscal belt-tightening taking a toll on economic growth.
It means they are more likely than other workers to have been in their job only a short time and be unfamiliar with procedures.
Looking forward, the people who seem likely to be in especially short supply begin with corporate managers, computing and IT specialists, and health-care professionals.
There will be no short-cuts taken with him, especially.
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The SEC's anti-naked short-selling restrictions also continue in place, including a requirement that short sales be closed out within the settlement period, with penalties on further short-selling activity if the close-out isn't followed.
"In Bognor the contest takes us six months to organise, so to organise it somewhere else in two months would be a timescale that, short of someone coming in with a lot of money, would be impossible, " he said.
The deal with the British Medical Association also means patients who move a short distance away will be able to stay with their existing practice.
"President Obama is very confident that the situation here can be dealt with in a reasonably short time, " he said.
Sir Michael said any deployment of ground troops would probably be only for a short period, with very clearly defined objectives.
The man was said to be a skinny white male with short dark brown or black hair, West Midlands Police said.
Alliance leader David Ford said targets had to be established to deal with the short and medium term, which were specific and sectoral.
They may prove, as a result, unable safely and surely to meet the threats that will be given short shrift by politicians consumed with domestic considerations.
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Savvy mobile users will not be satisfied with slow performance or short battery life, and innovations such as hardware-accelerated multimedia engines, more efficient power management techniques and multi-core architectures will all be key to ensuring that devices are able to fully take advantage of the newly broadened data pipe.
The model will be fitted with a Kers system, short for Kinetic Energy Recovery System, that has been developed by the Formula 1 industry.
How can short-term business goals be aligned with long-term social objectives?
However the glory days were to be short-lived, as despite flirting with promotion to division two, poor attendances and financial strife brought about a move in the other direction.
Mr Olmert's fatal error was to believe his chief of staff, a former air-force commander, who assured him that Hizbullah's thousands of short-range missiles could be dealt with in the same way.
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