Experience also suggests the need for the U.S. military to be prepared to conduct two major long-term operations at a time.
When the European Central Bank (ECB) embarked upon its Long Term Refunding Operations (LTRO1 and LTRO2), which gave all European banks access to 1% money for 3 years in order to stave off a rapidly approaching financial crisis in those banks, there was an unwritten quid pro quo.
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Operations including its Outright Monetary Transactions (OMTs) and the Long-Term Refinancing Operations (LTROs) helped bring down yields on eurozone sovereign bonds, making it less expensive for governments to borrow on international markets and pay off their interest payments to creditors.
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Banks that have benefited from the European Central Bank's Long-Term Refinancing Operations have invested some of the money in government bonds.
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Following the conclusion of this program in late summer 2011, the ECB embarked on the first of its Long-Term Refinancing Operations (LTRO) in December, 2011.
Both rounds of the loans - dubbed long-term refinancing operations (LTRO) - included provisions to allow paying them off early, beginning at the end of this month.
Only a fraction of the three-year money the ECB has lent to banks since December under its Long-Term Refinancing Operations has been channeled to troubled government-bond markets (though it has helped the banks).
The investment is "part of Huawei's long term commitment to position its operations in India as a hub for the company's global operations, " said Ross Gan, a spokesman from the Shenzhen-based company.
The firm also says that such packages must be appropriately balanced between short-term and long-term interests as well as reflect the entire scope of the operations.
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We are positive on the long-term growth prospects of the international operations based on two broad-based industry-wide trends: emerging markets growth and expansion of global trade.
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These two operations morphed into long-term counterinsurgency campaigns involving at their zeniths around 150, 000 U.S. troops each as well as significant contingents from allied and partner nations.
In addition to impacts on farming and ranching operations, a long-term, widespread drought will also have implications for wildfires, water availability, navigation, and power generation across much of the country and across other sectors.
As these services begin to recover, many business and IT leaders are wondering how they will resume normal operations to ensure the long-term financial viability of the company and the livelihoods of their employees and how they will serve their loyal customers.
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Issuers would achieve this stability through loan extension and expiration operations (the major, long-term method) or currency trading (the minor, day-to-day method).
BP's UK logistics infrastructure manager, Mark Hardie, said the contract was part of BP's long-term marine strategy to support its UK offshore operations.
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In his new role, Fields said he will oversee Ford's day-to-day global operations, while Mulally will shape the long-term execution of his 'One Ford' plan and mentor top executives.
"Certain funeral and cemetery operations were identified as not being well aligned with our long-term growth strategy, primarily because of their lack of geographic proximity to the major population areas of North America, " Service Corp.
Such a step would surely have the effect of making the present policy paralysis in the Gulf a permanent state, with devastating implications for long-term U.S. interests in the region and a disturbing precedent for future military operations.
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So the ground operations will go in and go out, they're are not there for a long term basis.
Michael Waller, the Center's Vice President for Information Operations, testified before the Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security regarding the long term threat posed by terrorist recruitment and infilitration in the U.S. prison system as well as the U.S. military.
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