Their term, unlike that of financial options, is usually open-ended or undefinable.
However, more than just a new OS and better tools, what the company will need is for a strong message to be sent out to the developers that its QNX will become a major software platform with a long-term future, unlike webOS, which was recently abandoned by HP.
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The ECB would focus any such programs on the acquisition of short-term debt and, unlike in the past, it would state how much it was purchasing.
Unlike the traditional parties, it will impose term limits on its representatives and turn away dodgy donations and members.
Wales's Assembly, unlike the Westminster Parliament, is elected for a fixed term, so there is no possibility of new Assembly elections.
Unlike many rivals, which often focus on short-term results and oil-price movements, Exxon invests in or walks away from projects based on long-term returns on capital assuming moderate oil prices.
Insurance, unlike factory-based industries, faces no short-term capacity constraints.
And some of the president's friends would like this pensions reform, unlike the one that dogged Mr Cardoso's first term, to be limited to public-sector pension schemes, where the funding gap is bigger.
Unlike Britain, they have concluded that a "long-term and more effective solution" is to license the importation, manufacture and sale of all new psychoactive products.
But unlike in the state sector, employees are on short-term contracts if they have any contract at all, and are hardly likely to challenge bosses for violating regulations.
Unlike Egbert, Renouard identified Microsoft as the most obvious long-term callenger to VMware.
Spanish lenders (unlike Irish banks) have sharply reduced their dependence on short-term financing from the European Central Bank, from a peak reached in July.
But unlike the Fed, which has the authority to anchor short-term interest rates and conduct open-ended Treasury purchases, the SPR grants the President no such sway in the oil market.
But something much more prosaic is at play in this case--access to Europe's largest tobacco market, Russia, which, unlike the market in Western Europe, is not in long-term decline because of smoking bans and tobacco taxes.
But they say unlike 1982, Israel has no intention of staying in Lebanon long-term.
Unlike the employer, the employee coach is not assured those long-term stadium revenue streams from that source no matter what was done to build them.
The commercial paper market is growing increasingly antsy and GE, not unlike a hedge fund, is stuck with some percentage of long-term assets that it is trying to fund with short-term money.
Unlike markets elsewhere that depend on institutions such as pension funds that invest long term, Shanghai's market is dominated by smaller, retail investors who tend to think more short term.
Unlike the iPhone, which is subsidized by carriers in exchange for a long term contract, prepaid phones are typically sold for a modest up front cost, and service is paid for month-to-month.
But unlike the banks, lawmakers forced the companies to gin up detailed plans for long-term financial viability and ditch their corporate jets for compact cars.
Yet Mr Volcker still lacked the consolation of popularity, unlike Mr Greenspan, who was praised by the press and politicians for much of his term.
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Unlike rich countries, this argument goes, Latin America may gain more in the medium term by defending its hard-won fiscal stability and relying on the outside world for stimulus.
But unlike other NSAIDS, Celebrex does not cause serious stomach problems or deadly ulcers with long-term use.
Unlike its more profitable private sector rival HDFC Bank, ICICI is ready to sacrifice short-term net for gaining market share, as it did in undercutting HDFC's long-standing lead in mortgage loans. (Overall, ICICI's net interest margin of 2.25% is less than half that of HDFC Bank's 4.72%.) Similarly, ICICI has overtaken Citibank as the country's largest issuer of credit cards, with 8.5 million cards issued to date.
Unlike the price in America, it is tied to the oil price, thanks to long-term Russian and Norwegian export contracts.
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DC, short-term concerns for the Japanese economy were calmed within a week, as most factories, unlike the ports and highways, were found to be intact.
Unlike managers invested in historical decisions, and legacy assets, employees understand that without productivity their long-term employment is at risk.
Unlike all other big fast-food chains, McDonald's owns or controls under a long-term lease the vast majority of its stores and land.
Unlike the Fed, which has engaged in a wide-ranging Quantitative Easing exercise aimed at reducing longer-term interest rates, the ECB has only ever engaged in bond purchases in the most grudging way possible and currently has no active bond purchase program.
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