But even if you have to pay for a week to try it out, it's better to spend the money than to make a long-term commitment to a club that doesn't work out.
So is it safe to make a long-term investment in a utility stock now?
Dr Buckley says that regular changes in the workplace can make a long-term improvements.
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If you are thinking of buying his stock, up 30% so far this year, however, make it a long term play.
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And investors are starting to more frequently ask the questions, 'How do we make a long-term equity investment in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac if we don't know what they're ultimately going to look like?
As many of the best and brightest students in the world are studying at American colleges and universities, we must take this as an opportunity to make a long-term investment in the top talent we are educating.
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You won't get any break on furniture prices in Panama, which are roughly equivalent to the U.S. When you compare costs, it will probably make more sense for you to rent a furnished unit and leave most of your stuff in the U.S. in a self-storage unit until you are ready to make a long-term commitment.
Corporations have the resources and potential to make venture a long-term strategic asset.
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Mr. EDWARDS: I think it depends entirely on, number one, whether there are leaders, who the country recognizes, who are willing to make this a long-term issue.
Ravens GM, Ozzie Newsome, and his assistant GM, Eric DeCosta, are very good at what they do, and maybe they can make a big long-term contract work.
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That's partly due to the development of the capital markets over the past decade in places like India and Latin America, making it easier for a company to make long-term investments in those areas, says Colleen Harkness, a managing director with GE's Energy Financial Services unit.
Jet engines and energy infrastructure did not flex their muscles this quarter, but both make sense from a long-term perspective.
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There are some people who want to make a deep, long-term promise to each other, which is an engagement, and marry 10 years from now.
The bull market of the Nineties was fueled by rising profits, but it's getting harder and harder to make a case for long-term profitability compounding at more than 4% per annum.
The international geosciences programme (IGCP) project 567 on earthquake archaeology is intended to demonstrate that archaeological evidence can make a valuable contribution to long-term seismic-hazard assessments in earthquake-prone regions where there is a long and lasting cultural heritage.
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Gordon Brown told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that although people wanted lower fuel prices they also understood the need to make decisions on a "long term and balanced" basis and that extra funds provided for public services came from taxation.
Collectibles in a variety of categories make long-term investments and are quite meaningful when tailored to a gift recipient's abiding interests.
But it was a trip to Thailand over Christmas 2004 that truly illuminated how we could make long-term travel a reality.
But the Rome meeting did make a start on the longest of long-term goals: a second green revolution.
Moreover, shareholders of Bell, the vehicle through which Olivetti was controlled, saw the transaction as an opportunity to make a profit quickly, rather than as a long-term industrial investment.
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So we're going to have to make a commitment to our long-term infrastructure.
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Being proactive in the early stages can allow a person a chance to make long-term decisions about their care, living arrangements, finances, and legal concerns.
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It may force the Treasury to pay higher interest rates to those who buy its debt, to make it a more attractive long-term prospect, observers say.
Considering these trends, younger savers living at home could do three things to really make a difference in their long-term outlook and the retirement prospects of their medium-term hosts, good old Mom and Pop.
Yet it is possible that those "protective" factors, once identified and understood, could play an important role in pointing toward new treatments and interventions that capitalize on those protective factors and so make a real difference to long-term outcomes.
That is, understanding what it takes to make a relationship work in the long-term.
In Europe, for example, where regulators have an even heavier hand on the special access scales, efforts to micro-manage pricing have left incumbent providers unable to make a profit or develop any long-term strategy.
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Stoke boss Tony Pulis has already said that they may make a fresh bid for the 22-year-old, a long-term target.
As a private company Chrysler has the latitude to make long-term decisions that would have been difficult, if not impossible, to justify in a world where shareholders punish companies for missing earnings projections by a penny per share.
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