But the short-term question is whether the company could deliver slightly better than expected fall performance.
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The interesting long-term question: how can Microsoft expand the use of Kinect beyond gaming?
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At every stage, he has treated Europe as a short-term question of political tactics rather than a vital issue of national strategy.
This year there will much more focus on the long-term question of taxes and spending, as the huge budget surpluses enjoyed by the government in the past few years are set to disappear.
However, as Mr Bonsignore takes over that task, a longer-term question still remains about the viability of conglomerates in an age in which management people talk about core competences even more than six sigma.
If this bit of data point assembly is correct and Apple unveils something like this on Wednesday, it would likely call into question the near term viability of NFC powered mobile payments that require POS upgrades.
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Which takes us to the longer term question, which is whether there is the remotest prospect that the UK in the coming five to ten years can return to the 3%-a-year growth rate it enjoyed during the putative golden years from 1992-2008.
The question for the long term was, he explained, how to get off the "fossil fuel price escalator" with energy sources including renewable and nuclear.
But long term, the question you ask is the most vital one for how our economy performs.
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Over the long term, the question about social media is not whether it will change communication, collaboration, commerce, entertainment and media.
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My question is, during your term of office, will Buffalo see the transit system improvement for this country arrive here in Buffalo?
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The survey also raises the question of what long-term effects will result from children forming an emotional bond with a lump of plastic.
In response to a question on the long-term effects of reduced arts funding, Mr Ryde said that he feared it would mostly affect participation levels.
The high pay leads to questions about the alignment of management and shareholder interest, which leads me to question Lime as a long term hold.
In the meantime, long-term shareholders may question his actions.
And so the question is, at what point can we have a serious conversation about Medicare and its long-term liability, or a serious question about -- a serious conversation about Social Security, or a serious conversation about budget and debt in which we're not simply trying to position ourselves politically.
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Business, Innovation and Skills have what may look like a dry and technical session on the Kay Review of UK Equity Markets and Long-Term Decision Making (at 9.30am) but the question they're dealing with - directing money into long term investment, rather than short-term speculation - is central to economic recovery.
Whether Mr Thain can restore Merrill's fortunes over the longer term is a bigger question.
The real question is whether its near-term difficulties justify the discount Wall Street has slapped on its shares.
"There's no question that it has long-term potential, " said Tim Bajarin, head of Californian market researcher Creative Strategies.
In the short term, the first question will be whether or not the governing coalition will last until the next federal election scheduled for the fall of 2013.
This begs the question: Is this long-term wealth, or are these people spending money because they sense that their wealth has come, but will also, just as quickly, go away?
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Now, as he begins his campaign for a seventh term, Baucus faces the question again.
Crowley is pressing the question as it applies to the long term unemployed.
The natural question becomes why do great long-term bull markets invariably arise from a haunted house type of market environment?
In the immediate term, however, the question is how to handle Kirtsaeng in the context of current American copyright law.
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The 26-year-old's latest setback in a catalogue of injuries has led his club coach Rob Andrew to question the player's long-term future.
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