"We need to rule out that there is a not long-lasting effect in healthy people, " Volkow said.

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It is a temporary one-time gimmick, not a long-lasting tonic for the recovery.

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Draghi re-financing operations are more a band-aid than a fire hose, providing temporary support but not a long-lasting solution.

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It is also important to emphasize that economic theory predicts that these types of changes are not expected to be large but potentially long lasting.

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Gordon Lishman, director general of Age Concern England, backed the principles but said ministers should not spend too long talking when clear ideas for lasting change were already available.

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But there's one underappreciated reason not to go into business with your spouse: It can create dire and long-lasting problems with the Internal Revenue Service.

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It's not looked at that these kinds of activities can, in the long run, cause long-lasting damage, even to the economy.

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And so when there was this opportunity with long-lasting bed nets, we knew that some of the local bed-net manufacturers might not make it.

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