But it said passing a short-term measure added "unnecessary complications" and "needlessly" perpetuated fiscal uncertainty.
It is only a short-term measure, admits Gunter Reck, an adviser to the recently created environmental ministry.
The White House signalled last week it approved of the short-term measure that would avoid the prospect of default.
Yes, in small measure, the term might suit him because teenagers or twentysomethings are usually the ones using new media for macking.
So-called "ventricular support" devices are nothing new, but the previously cumbersome size meant that they could only remain in the patient for only a few months, so were used as a short-term measure to keep desperately ill patients alive until a transplant organ could be found.
Republicans should have, in our view, done what they had done just a few months before, which is pass a short-term measure to delay implementation of the sequester, a measure that would have represented the balance that the public supports, asking the well-off and well-to-do to pay a little bit, not just seniors and middle-class families, and that then regular order could have continued as it is now, but without the sequester.
Well, what else would be expected from a short-term stimulus measure supporting construction projects?
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The Camden Coalition has been able to measure its long-term effect on its first thirty-six super-utilizers.
Investment in original programming will depend on incremental benefit, which may be hard to measure in the short term.
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"It can be argued that you can measure the long-term effects but you really have to search, " he said.
All they can measure is long-term changes in cognition that occur years later.
The 293-127 vote allows Boehner to begin negotiations with Senate Democrats over a longer-term funding measure for road, rail and bridge projects.
Mix models simply do not measure the longer-term, positive value of advertising.
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Marketers are mislead to think that they promotionally come out ahead with incremental sales and profits in spite of lower margins because mix models do not measure the longer-term negative consequences of cannibalized, future full-margin sales.
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In Arkansas, where conditions are the driest they've been since 1925, according to one widely used measure of short-term drought, ranchers have been selling off cattle to avoid having to feed and water them, said Arkansas Department of Agriculture spokesman Zach Taylor.
The measure did produce a short term increase in economic activity, says the CBO.
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The central bank has also expanded a key stimulus measure aimed at keeping long term interest rates low.
Mr. McConnell pointed out that, in the short-term federal spending measure passed in December, Republicans left out funding to hire workers to implement the health overhaul.
In Russia, where the lower house of parliament gave final approval to a measure to extend the presidential term to six years, from four, Moscow's RTS index was up 2.8%, led by Gazprom, up 5.6%.
Bernanke referred to the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program to buy Treasury securities as a successful measure in stimulating long-term interest rates and raising the prices of equities, while also emphasizing that the practice does not really constitute government spending, as the Fed is not purchasing goods and services.
This is the same criterion used by the actuary of Social Security to compute the ultimate measure of the long-term financial condition of Social Security and used by private lenders in determining whether the purpose to which a prospective loan is put will increase the present value of a company's future cash flows by more than the amount of the loan.
Most of the expenditures for both Medicaid, and to a large measure, Medicare are for long term care expenditures.
"The mining sector in 2013 is in for quite a tumultuous period but having considered the sector's contribution to the country's GDP, but also its contribution to employment levels, the government will have a strong reason to try and ensure that there is policy clarity and also a measure of stability in the medium term, " she says.
This is one advantage over the Conference Board's leading economic indicator, which conceals useful information by combining longer- and shorter-term indicators in a single measure.
Since an investor is contemplating a fund or funds to be a core, long-term holding, one key measure is the 3-year, 5-year or 10-year return compared to the benchmark.
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Although some of the nuclear plants will be put back on line, it seems that the hope that nuclear energy would offer a measure of energy independence in the long term seems forlorn.
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Comparing long-term debt to current assets helps measure financial stability and highlights a potentially worsening situation within a company.
The spokesman said he also saw no need to delay next month's lame-duck session or to sign another temporary funding measure through the end of Clinton's term, which ends Jan. 20, when the new president takes office.
The measure is intended to encourage the inflow of long-term foreign investment capital.
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