Marketing budgets are frequently spent on episodic activities like events, e-mail campaigns, webinars and other activities that come and go quickly and leave no lasting footprint.

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Sluggers come and go quickly in the majors.

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Most food trends come and go as quickly as the pop-up spaces that host them.

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We have even considered refusing to prescribe inhalers until some patients come for a review, and even those who do come go straight back to their old habits very quickly.

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If a serious offer does come, it can all go through quickly.

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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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That means they cannot borrow any more money for a minimum of a few years (Argentina seemed to be able to come back fairly quickly after default), but it would go a long way toward balancing the government budget.

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It may not come as quickly as once advertised, but it won't go all the way to the convention.

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The recovery has come far more quickly than many expected, although has a long way to go.

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The prize will go to the first person to come up with a way of quickly extracting an adequate amount of oxygen from simulated lunar regolith (volcanic ash is being used as a stand-in).

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