Ya'ir explained that short-cuts are not necessarily better than long roads.

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Because his long-term memory is better than his short-term memory, Bordisso moved back to his childhood home in Sacramento, California.

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So as frustrating as it may be for the college grad or the MBA, the fact of the matter is you are still going to be much better off than if you didn't have that education short term as well as long term.

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To make the long story short, Sam convinced me that he could be doing a better job than me in managing my money.

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They return about the same as long-term bonds with lower interest-rate risk and pay substantially better than short-term bonds.

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Although that performance was much better than the painfully negative returns suffered by holders of government bonds, it was a long way short of the 6-7% returns that shares have historically achieved.

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Our research consistently demonstrates that short-term (five year maturity or less) paper has historically a much better risk-return tradeoff than long-term bonds.

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