But his approach to this is we have to do -- this is an important issue because it goes to our long-term economic health.

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With this said, it is important not to abandon longer term asset allocation strategies as a reaction to short-term market movements.

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This number is important in terms of the long-term trend.

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This was considered important because Kynamro is intended for long-term treatment in order to maintain the cholesterol-lowering effect.

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Is this event important, or not, longer term?

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While cost efficiencies do make a lot of sense in the short term, it is important to understand whether all this knowledge drain will prevent the effective bounce back of the organization when the high growth economy returns?

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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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But I will say one thing that I think is important on Social Security, which is, this is not about short-term deficits.

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And I think, again, this is an important opportunity to demonstrate greater stability in our overall system by approving his renomination for another term at the Fed.

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