But the government's "behaviour tsar", Charlie Taylor, has called for a clampdown on term-time holidays.
Sure, the founding fathers did not vote on term limits, but the lifespan of a person was not what is now.
But by June last year ATI had defaulted on its term loan and likely had not paid interest on its term loan for months.
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But the term still applies in many homes, where school-aged kids working on term papers still use their parents' good printer in the den to print the final product.
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Unlike many rivals, which often focus on short-term results and oil-price movements, Exxon invests in or walks away from projects based on long-term returns on capital assuming moderate oil prices.
It may be technically correct based on long-term returns, but not on short-term emotion.
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Faint though it is, there is a glimmer of hope in financial markets: interest rates on short-term loans between banks and on longer-term corporate debt have fallen notably since the autumn, and there has been a flood of new bond issues.
Yields on short-term Italian debt are now higher than on long-term Italian debt.
South Korea, for instance, lifted restrictions on short-term inflows in the early 1990s but kept limits on long-term investment.
He says he has to rely for financing on short-term bank loans at high interest rates instead of on longer-term bonds.
And Resnick, whose term on the bench ends this year, has opted to seek a third term on the state Supreme Court rather than embark on a risky Senate race.
And you made a distinction between the short-term focus on jobs and then the medium-term focus on getting the fiscal house in order.
Have a default on the term and the interest, not on the capital.
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If a lender is willing to accept a lower return on a long-term loan than he could get on a short-term one, it usually means he is worried that economic growth will stall.
Say what you wish about Barack Obama, but the man is a subtle thinker who is more focused on the long-term benefits of a decision than he is on the short-term gratification that drives most of our politicians.
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On long term Nokia is taking the risk of being on the hands of a software company with a not well succeced history on mobile and is wasting one decade of know how on software who would be very usefull on the next disruption of the industry and making it completely attached to microsoft.
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But losing short-term revenue on long-term gains is just part of being Microsoft.
"Over the past few years we have been working together with our partners to make our public services simpler, better co-ordinated and focused on preventing long term pressure on our services and public finances, " he said.
Petter Osmundsen, a petroleum economist who teaches at Stavanger University in Norway, suggests another: excessive focus on short-term measures of financial performance, which discouraged firms from making long-term bets on growth and encouraged them to dish out their profits to shareholders instead in the form of increased dividends and share buybacks.
In the post-mortems being carried out on his term of office, the media focus has inevitably been on Pope Benedict's handling of contentious issues such as gay marriage and adoption, homosexuality and other social issues.
Moreover, if the Bush era tax cuts are simply allowed to expire, as scheduled, at the end of 2012, the top rate on long term gains will revert to 20%, while the rate on dividends will more than double to 39.6%.
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Yields on short term debt have seen an even more dramatic decline, as the yields on the five-year T-Note have dropped from 1.84% in early July to a low of 1.12%.
The impact of high air-pollution levels on long-term health weighs on Chinese and foreigners alike.
In an interview Monday with CNN, Wellstone -- who in running for a third term had reneged on an earlier term-limits pledge -- said his tenure in Washington had changed him.
Nomura based its case on a stronger real short term on the fact that Japanese fixed income investors are still in love with the currency, pouring billions into Brazilian bonds and bank CDs in August.
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More dramatically still, on the same respective dates the yield on long term JGBs were 1.53% and 0.65%.
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Based on guidance provided on long term cost trends, we have revised our valuation, which is explained below.
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