What is disturbing, though, are tentative signs of long-term change to the summer rains.
Only with a comprehensive proposal can the Administration effectively counter critics and win the support necessary for positive long-term change.
They'll switch away from SUVs to higher MPG vehicles and maybe even in the very long term change their commuting patterns.
Group leader Bill Dale said the move could help promote long-term change.
Drastic short-term change could be hugely expensive and therefore politically unsustainable in the absence of a strong scientific consensus about its urgency.
The chancellor published a paper arguing for long-term change to create a "sustainable future" for agriculture worldwide - including reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy.
So we should continue to work with the government on those policy areas where we agree and where a cross-party, tripartite approach to long-term change makes particular sense.
Why that is not about trumped-up short-term efficiency savings or thoughtless crisis cuts - but is about long-term change, long-term change that involves reducing the demands on the state by fixing our broken society and long term change that means increasing the productivity of the state by reforming our public services.
But it was also partially the result of long-term climate change, Crouch said.
Many of the reforms announced in January were directed at longer-term structural change.
The largest volcanoes might cause short-term climate change profound enough to reduce agricultural production precipitously in many places at once.
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The ups and downs of a short-term price change tends to cancel out, leaving a price that reflects the financial soundness of U.S. corporations.
Because as economists have found and explained through signaling theory and conspicuous conservation, making your socially-focused choices visible can motivate long-term behavior change.
The notion of long-term climate change -- particularly as caused by humans -- is politically controversial but generally accepted as fact by most scientists.
Assessing a CEOs performance in this area is important and requires a means of tracking long-term social change (likely done by a civil society partner).
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Long-term climate change fueled by a buildup of atmospheric carbon emissions is a controversial notion politically, but it's one accepted as fact by most scientists.
That reorganization was also deemed a long-term direction change for Intel.
With long term Treasuries decidedly weakening as leading and coincident economic indicators wax buoyant, what is normally a long term sea change could be compressed into a year or two.
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Looking at the whole field of climate-conflict studies, he said, a key was to understand the reality of what might link short- or long-term climatic change to outbreaks of conflict.
Meanwhile, central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan says the country should "sacrifice" short-term growth for long-term economic change to rebalance the economy away from a reliance on exports and toward more domestic consumption.
For example, managing the long term risks of climate change may require near term investments and commitments to new technologies, new personnel and new risk assessment tools that a CEO may just as soon leave to his or her successor.
But my personal belief is that cheaper computers in the long term will not change demand.
As plenty of highly leveraged borrowers learned in the crisis, hefty short-term funding can change from a profit engine to a huge liability overnight.
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"We can differentiate short-term variation from long-term patterns of change, making ECN sites invaluable to investigate the health of the ecosystems we rely on, " he added.
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Because this is a long term programme of change.
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Another worry has been Mr Menem's disappointing failure in his second term to maintain the pace of structural change of his first term.
So the sooner we start drawing up a long-term strategy for climate change, the better.
The business of business has the potential to make long-term, systemic social change a reality.
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