Moreover, the fact that Mr Barak has fallen so swiftly from favour among his coalition partners and his own party faithful for exhibiting precisely those same qualities, makes the memory of Mr Netanyahu's rocky first term less embarrassing.
Community Living Centers offer veterans both short-term (less than 90 days) and long-term (more than 91 days) stays.
Prior editions of the DSM included the less severe "alcohol abuse, " which was meant to apply to people with short-term and less entrenched problems such as college binge drinkers, and the more severe "dependence, " which became synonymous with hard-core alcoholism.
Most of the extra liquidity is likely to be in shorter-term and less risky securities.
However, it makes sense when you consider shorter term bonds are less risky than longer term bonds.
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However, Liberal Democrat councillor Nick Sandford expressed concerned about the high annual cost, preferring a longer-term, less costly approach.
Congress has often been controlled by a different party to the presidency, making mid-term elections less of a referendum on economic policy.
Sustained deflation, Credit Suisse says, would put strains on public finances, increasing the risk of sovereign default, and making longer-term bonds less attractive.
People in developed nations appeared more concerned about the longer-term, less immediate threat associated with climate change than those sampled in poorer, developing economies.
Whether Saab will survive in the long term is less clear.
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That is not without consequence, as it will mean slower growth in the short term (less than one year), but cutting deficits year after year, even gradually, will mean a very slow-growth, muddle through economy for a sustained period.
Current accounting rules allow retailers that sign certain long-term leases to omit the leased property from their balance sheets. (The basic rule is that omission is acceptable if the lease term is less than 75% of the useful life of the building.) But the Financial Accounting Standards Board may change that next year.
Volatility in the long term is much less of an issue than it is in the short term.
In this environment, managers naturally tend to be most focused on essential day-to-day operations and less interested in longer-term activities perceived as having less certain payback.
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While these investors could always sell their bonds as a result of changing market conditions, their approach is long-term and they are less likely to sell in reaction to short-term market fluctuations.
Bank loans term out in less than 10-years (often five to seven years) and issuers generally need to refinance at the end of that term.
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Type 2 used to be called adult-onset diabetes, but that term has become less popular as more and more children are turning up with it.
When it comes to bullying numbers, long-term trends are less clear.
Already we are a society that outsources much of our thinking to computers and the web, making our lives easier in the short term but potentially less so in the long run.
Bonds typically generate smaller long-term returns than stocks, but with less chance of short-term losses.
Google and Apple have attractive charts in the near-term and both lost less than most stocks.
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With long term CDs currently offering less than 2%, these investments are proving very popular.
In France, the benefit falls over time, to encourage the long-term jobless to be less picky.
You only pay one time, instead of every month so the long term the investment is less.
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There are exceptions, but I am willing to bet that the average construction equipment customer is thinking rather less long term.
Though long-term Treasuries have historically had low correlation coefficients with large-cap stocks, intermediate-term Treasuries are even less correlated with large-cap stocks.
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Net tax alpha is defined as the tax reduction from short-term and long-term capital losses, less commissions, over the period beginning balance.
Sadly, though, that spirit is too often absent when tackling the long-term, but no less profound issues facing our country and the world.
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