He was dogged through his second term by the small size of his parliamentary majority.
For starters, the U.S. would be avoiding a default in the near term, but the size of the deficit would remain a worry.
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It suggests the service could increase the intervals between beginning each new carrier without having any near-term impact on the size of the fleet.
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The US is more used to the term, due to the size of its economy and its spending power.
So Bear Stearns, the financial products division of AIG -- neither of them very big, Long-Term Capital Management -- size is not, I think, the single attribute that we feel should be focused on.
Those who need the assurance of statistical studies would be better served by the Rahn Curve (named after economist Richard Rahn), which shows a long-term negative relationship between the size of government expenditures as a percentage of GDP and economic growth rates.
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"The long-term goal is a handheld instrument the size of a calculator" for detecting DNA, says Branton, who hopes to have a prototype in a few years.
Baroness Hayman said there was a need for reform of the upper house in the form of "incremental progress" and cited areas including the size of the chamber, term limits for appointees and enabling members to retire, around which consensus might be reached.
The difference in opinion concerning the long-term global economic outlook has grown to the size of the Grand Canyon.
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Without being able to dramatically increase its size, many questioned the long-term viability of US Airways.
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But he said after reconsidering the idea and focusing on specific engineering issues, including the size of the spacecraft, and long-term propulsion methods, it was considered by the team to be potentially feasible.
The currency swap program is now one-sixth the size of QE2, which signals that short-term U.S. dollar funding markets remain extremely strained.
As Sun's size lends legitimacy and the guarantee of long-term service to MySQL, the acquisition will likely convince more and larger enterprises to sign on to MySQL's cut-rate database systems, Yuhanna says.
As Sun's (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) size lends legitimacy and the guarantee of long-term service to MySQL, the acquisition will likely convince more and larger enterprises to sign on to MySQL's cut-rate database systems, Yuhanna says.
And neither involved raising nearly enough in tax revenues, relative to the size of America's economy or its long-term appetite for public spending.
In addition to the downward pressure on stock prices, individual investors are also worried about the economy, the size of the federal deficit, and the longer-term threat of higher inflation and interest rates.
Labour's overwhelming victory in 1997 was clearly to quite a large extent a personal vote for Mr Blair, and the size of his majority has protected him during his first term in government.
But he would point out - and his fellow directors would agree - that he is already in the bottom quartile, and probably in the bottom decile, in respect of the pay, bonuses and other longer-term incentives he receives for managing a bank of RBS's size, international spread and complexity.
But through this new work they aimed to investigate whether known cross-cultural differences in body size preferences linked to stress were also mirrored in short-term stressful situations.
For years, during his term as the backstage attendant, he asked performers to sign a poster-size photo of the hall.
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The size of the raise in the debt ceiling in the near-term (a larger raise in the ceiling buys the politicians more time to create a longer-term deficit reduction plan).
The company insists that it is illiquid, not insolvent, but the size of the loan suggests that its problems go beyond a short-term cash crunch.
We take a long-term view of client requirements, consider the realistic number of regular passengers, physical size of the passengers, any scheduling demands for lead passengers (how flexible, in general, are departure and arrival times) and how acceptable are variations in service (is it important to have the same aircraft or aircraft type and configuration, or will any suitable aircraft from any acceptable provider be sufficient?).
It wasn't -- it's not just about ensuring that there is -- that any compensation should be more directly tied to long-term equity versus short-term cash, but you have to make a strong evaluation about the sheer level and size of your compensation in the environment in which we exist.
Anything based on a discipline (value, growth) or a sector (tech, financial) or a cap size (large, small) is going to underperform its benchmark over the long-term, mean revert versus its peers and cost you more than you need to spend in internal expenses.
But Berlin has so far been adamant that it won't agree to increase the size of Greece's loan package, meaning that higher Greek public spending in the near term would need to be offset by deeper cuts later.
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