Qualifying for Europe's top club competition next year looks vital not just to Villas-Boas' job prospects, but also to Chelsea's short-term future.
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The ISM chimed in with a manufacturing survey that suggested that the third quarter is not off to a good start and that the short-term future may not be any better.
One small ray of light came with news that the immediate, short-term future could be secured with a bridging loan of just 150m euros, compared with earlier estimates of a 230m euro loan.
Hence, many headwinds still persist for the U.S. economic recovery and we expect slow GDP growth for the short-intermediate term future.
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Long-term rates, which depend upon expected future short-term rates, would then fall.
Right now in the all-important oil world of the Middle East and North Africa, short-term supply, future prices, ownership and preferred trading partners are all up in the air.
At the end of this period, participants came to the laboratory with their partners and, while being videotaped together, were asked to describe the short or long-term future of their relationship.
Long-term nominal interest rates are influenced by many things, including investors' expectations of inflation and future short-term rates, and a risk premium for holding long-term assets.
The point he has made in his energy speech and his statements about our need to address our long-term energy future is that there are no short-term fixes to this problem, and it is -- that are sustainable or dramatic because -- and this is what he addressed and talked about before, that we had a spike in 2008.
The firms also work hard to reach and educate poor consumers, often sacrificing short-term profits to create future markets.
When the cash runs out, the powers-that-be take out short-term, high-interest loans, guaranteed against future oil production.
Still, investors expect upcoming expenditures to eat into future short-term gains.
Likewise, debt-fueled spending risks over-stimulating the economy in the short-term at the cost of future growth, not to mention that it incentivizes the government to keep interest rates low (as high rates worsen the debt burden).
While the Company is cautiously optimistic it will resolve its short-term funding needs in the near future, there can be no assurances.
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But bond yields also in part represent the market's forecast for the future level of short-term rates.
It produces a short-term revenue bump in exchange for huge future losses.
Bernanke left the door open to future cuts in short-term interest rates, saying the Fed "will act in a timely manner as needed" to promote economic growth.
As a result, even as we take these necessary steps in the short term, we have an obligation to future generations to address our long-term, structural deficits, which threaten to hobble our economy and leave our children and grandchildren with a mountain of debt.
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We have protected Google from outside pressures and the temptation to sacrifice future opportunities to meet short-term demands.
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In principle, the Fed hopes the new policy will convince markets that short-term rates will stay low for the foreseeable future.
To economists, all of these things probably matter more, to Britain's economic future, than the short-term debate between Plan A and Plan B.
Regardless, Robison won't be looking at Cisco's short-term results as much as its outlook for future quarters, a measure he says ties in closely with trends in the U.S. economy.
Americans believe that the individual can influence the future by personal effort, but since there are too many variables in the distant future, we favor a short-term view.
Both parties have tried to convince the public that in order to secure a stronger country in the future, they must make short-term sacrifices to get through the European financial crisis.
But the surge in short-term arrivals signals a likely increase in emigrants in the future, experts say.
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It stands in the way of a short-term answer to the crisis and hangs dangerously over the future.
Fourth, employees may start asking for shorter vesting on future equity grants, or more short-term cash in their pay mix.
The alternative is to protract the collective suffering with short-term deficit reductions that only guarantee bigger deficits in the future.
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The editors appeared optimistic that newspapers had a future in print, at least short-term - reassuringly optimistic for an old print romantic like myself.
Geopolitical jitters, he explained, had sparked notable backwardation in Brent, which means short-term contracts are trading at a premium to longer-dated ones, a sign that investors are fearful of the future and prefer to buy today.
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