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Even if children are irksome now, they lend meaning to life in the long term.
ECONOMIST: Why conservatives are happier than liberals
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Critics of long-term-care insurance argue that many who need long-term care use it for less than 90 days, and that most policies have a 90-day deductible, meaning most owners of long-term care insurance will receive no benefits.
WSJ: Should You Purchase Long-Term-Care Insurance?
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Net long-term capital losses from any rate category are first applied against the highest tax rate long-term capital gains (meaning, for example, gains from collectibles taxed at 28%).
FORBES: Don't Rush To Recognize Capital Gains Or Losses
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First he argued laches, the legal term meaning Lemelson had waited too long to press claims over his bar-code reader supposedly invented in the early 1950s.
FORBES: The Patent Troll You Don't Read About In Bar-Code Inventor's Obituaries
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That damages the long-term potential of the economy, meaning the government can rely even less on an eventual recovery to fix the hole in its finances.
BBC: Budget 2013: Should the government plough ahead with cuts?
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The problem is, once you consider due process, you have to give it some meaning--and the meaning you choose will cast a long shadow over what the term means everywhere else.
WSJ: Best of the Web Today: Not the Drones They Thought They Knew
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She emphasized on education as the most important medium for promoting peace, tolerance and meaning of being global citizens which definitely will have a long term impact for development of a pluralistic society.
UNESCO: CULTURE
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There are 82 teachers who have been "excessed, " meaning they have no permanent classroom position but are used sometimes as long-term substitutes or for other purposes.
WSJ: Newark Schools Standoff
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Each word in its statement of purpose has meaning that guides decision-making, client relations, employee benefits, and long-term plans.
FORBES: How Purpose Drives Revenue
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He scours Asia for enterprises that sell into large and expanding markets and have high or rapidly rising returns on equity, strong free cash flow (meaning net income plus depreciation minus capital expenditures, adjusted for working capital) and a focused long-term strategy.
FORBES: Bad government, good companies