Listed retailers, by contrast, often face pressure to raise prices in order to meet short-term financial goals.
We have protected Google from outside pressures and the temptation to sacrifice future opportunities to meet short-term demands.
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Hormel has cooked up a healthy balance sheet with no long-term debt load and enough cash to meet short-term debt.
Human capital is the asset that most people count on to support their families and to meet short-term financial obligations, such as buying food, paying the mortgage, and other living expenses.
Even more gloomy is the fact that 27% of the mass affluent were tapping their long-term savings to meet short-term financial needs Some were using their savings for monthly living expenses like bills and groceries.
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As the mortgage crisis unfolded late in the summer of 2007, Northern Rock was forced to turn to the Bank of England for liquidity support to meet short term debt obligations, unable to secure adequate funding through private channels.
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And there's a warning to both London and Edinburgh politicians: while the public finances are in a lot of trouble, "The temptation to regard the industry as a cash-cow to meet short-term needs will be strong, but should be resisted".
The grid needs short-, medium-, and longer-term storage to run smoothly, and car batteries could most easily meet the short-term need, a process called frequency regulation.
Today I have another option to share that creative small businesses are using to meet their short term liquidity needs: online pawns.
Do they make it clear to the rest of the organization that the resources are allocated and not to be trampled upon to meet some short term issue?
There is a strong suspicion that once a large state entity is privatised, the selling government will simply be tempted to spend the money at once to meet its short-term obligations.
Moreover, with the exception of the continent's handful of natural resource-rich, low population-density countries like Angola (see my September 9, 2008 column advocating an intensified strategic engagement with the geopolitically significant Southern African country), most of America's would-be partners are constrained by lack of the financial wherewithal to upgrade their capabilities to meet even short-term priorities.
The state is about 700 megawatts short of what is needed to meet demand.
And I only know all this because I made a short visit to the zoo to meet with Lanny Brown, its ungulate manager.
They happen because management ignores deep-seated weaknesses and allows itself to get caught up in a cycle of short-term initiatives meant to meet high expectations with high-risk growth.
But RIM's fast growth -- its share of the global smart-phone market has jumped to 15.9% from 6.9% since 2006, according to research firm Gartner -- left it short-handed and straining to meet the demands of various carrier partners.
Short-term gigs can help you meet specific goals like paying down debt or creating an emergency fund.
The United States and NATO rejected the Yugoslav offer, saying it "falls far short" of the conditions Milosevic must meet to end the air campaign.
Speaking in the Irish parliament, Mr Adams, who represents Louth, said he would like Mr Gilmore to meet with residents in the Short Strand and "the adjacent loyalist areas".
In the short term, EU leaders are to meet for their first face to face talks on the crisis at a planned summit in Brussels in two weeks time.
The drive to meet profitability expectations, a very short-term, quarterly obsession, is anathema to sustainability.
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The pair will get the chance to meet up to three times for short 15 to 30-minute intervals, following the pattern of how pandas would come together in the wild to mate and then separate.
Tian Tian and Yang Guang will be given the opportunity to meet up to three times for short 15 to 30 minute intervals, following the pattern of how pandas would come together briefly in the wild to mate.
If you produce a short-term memory -- if you look up a telephone number you just remember for a short period of time (or) you meet somebody and remember their name briefly -- you have a transient change in the strength of communication.
But the list of funds that meet Blomquist's exacting requirements is short--only 42 stock funds and 18 bond funds.
Often Hayley will be meeting people who work on short term contracts or have almost impossible deadlines to meet.
On our short trip, my number one priority was to meet as many of the Vegas Tech Community as I could.
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Evolutionary sea-based defenses, an early version of which conducted a successful intercept of a short-range ballistic missile two months ago, meet both of these tests.
They may prove, as a result, unable safely and surely to meet the threats that will be given short shrift by politicians consumed with domestic considerations.
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Actors he wants for roles get short invite notes, but some don't even meet him until they're on set.
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