But short-term political need, rather than long-term prosperity, is dictating Argentine policy.
"It's another example of short-term political posturing from Washington, not the long-term leadership we need to solve our dependence on oil, " he said.
The meeting between Blades and Meckler just possibly might prove to have explosive long-term political impact.
To allocate losses any other way would be a recipe for long-term political and financial instability.
And are the longer-term political costs of redesigning Europe to save the euro too great?
But the problem with these tax-cuts is that they are motivated by short-term political opportunism.
His bold decision to separate interest-rate changes from short-term political calculations has proved an unqualified success.
So he cannot, as many previous chancellors have done, sacrifice sound monetary policy for short-term political gain.
Yet for all of these synergies, Obama's embrace of the gentry agenda also poses some longer-term political risks.
The pact commits politicians "not to pitch one group against another for short term political or personal gain".
The long-term political calculation is pretty simple: Political parties can't survive when governed by a single special interest.
Whether there is a larger, longer-term political role for Egypt's military (as in Pakistan and Turkey) remains to be seen.
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You know, there are certain things that are gut to you that you can't betray just because of short-term political interests.
Ms Pillay said an inquiry was needed "to foster longer-term political reconciliation".
But the two main challenges for the West are long-term political ones.
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In the absence of a binding playbook, the temptation of regulators to succumb to short-term political considerations during a crisis is too great.
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In other words, Romney is willing to condemn lower-skilled workers to unemployment, in hopes that he will gain some sort of short-term political advantage.
But in the case of NASA, which struggles to maintain funding for long-term projects because of short-term political juggling, it is a mixed blessing.
And while expanding the welfare state promised long-term political gain to Democrats, as FDR and LBJ demonstrated, the fruits of fiscal responsibility were more difficult to discern.
The long-term political implications of these trends aren't entirely clear.
This helps to reduce the influence of short-term political interests.
Still, at the heart of the difference between father and son is something larger than short-term political calculations: The agenda gap also reflects a different conception of the presidency.
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Voters would "not forgive either party if we call time ahead of the election that has been legislated for in 2015 - destabilising the nation in the vague hope of short-term political gain".
This is what leads us to the more serious medium term political consideration, how can the two coalition parties agree a set of joint spending plans that spans the next election?
Ronald Reagan actually did study economics, and he was willing to pay a severe but, thankfully, short-term political price to break the inflation fever gripping the country in the early 1980s.
The Democrats will tell us anything they think will justify what they really want, which is explosive taxes, spending, and deficits to keep down the short term political costs of all that spending.
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But with next year's elections ringing in his ears, commentators say it seems likely Finance Minister Simba Makoni may find himself putting short term political gains before the prudent management of the ailing economy.
His short-term victory has had long-term political consequences.
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