We are closer to a long-term low in oil here than we are any kind of high.
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Since most of our clients are long-term oriented, we believe international diversification provides a lot of value.
The interest is something we have to deal with and interest payments are a major portion of our long-term debt problem that we need to address.
We know we have to better adapt to the new realities of the marketplace, and we are creating a long-term plan designed to make Best Buy more relevant with customers and position the company for sustained, profitable returns in the years ahead.
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"It's a long-term project and we are fully cognizant of that, " says Chavez.
"We know as well that there is a small proportion of patients that on long-term treatment are developing complications so that means we need to have new tools for the future, " she said.
There are a couple of things we definitely know: the long term and short term maximising rates will be different.
So you can take it that we are in a long-term bear market equivalent to the fall of the Roman Empire or you can see this period as just another one of the nasty economic periods we have suffered periodically since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
We are surely seeing a new Obama emerge on the eve of his second term.
There are only a handful of businesses about which we have strong long-term convictions.
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That said, we are also cautious with a longer-term perspective, owing to the threat of competition from online video and the possibility that the DVD kiosk market will reach saturation levels within the next 18 months to two years.
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The long-term problem, though, is the fact that we are a nation of laws and we are a nation of immigrants.
The consensus is still that we are in a long-term rise subject to cyclical corrections, but the scale of any imminent correction is cause for concern.
As we write this essay, longer-term U.S. Treasures are getting a bit of a safety bid on the economic impact of a possible nuclear meltdown in Japan.
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We are so short-term-oriented that many of us would rather have a fatter paycheck now than set aside some of that happiness, even if the funds will be greater in the future.
If it is a solution we are looking for it has to be preceded by some type of term limit regulations or guidelines, otherwise our esteemed Congress will continue to make the votes most likely to keep them in office.
While straight up advertising, virtual goods, or commerce driven consumer plays will not be in the fairway for us, there is a segment of consumer opportunities where we are very interested, and we use the term Empowerment to characterize them.
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We are not at a point where you can find a lot of low-hanging fruit in term of reducing spending.
If we search a term on Google or check our Facebook newsfeed, those companies are similarly personalizing the millions of possible results to deliver the most satisfying and engaging experience.
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Fund A generates all of its profits from unrealized gains and thus the only tax hit to investors comes at the end of the 15 year period when we assume the fund is liquidated and the proceeds to investors are taxed at a long term gains rate of 15%.
Building on this theme, we spent a lot of time today looking at what is happening with globalization in the current environment and we focused on what it takes to be a leading organization when faced with the kind of challenges we are seeing in the short term and the opportunities in the global economy in the medium term.
Ms. ANN WHEAT (Co-founder, Lost Boys Center): While one would think that maybe things would continue to get easier, the reality that we've all had to come to grips with are those long-term effects of living life as a child survivor of war, all the devastation and trauma of having your family--everything familiar to you: your culture, your way of life, all taken away from you.
"We are in this for the long term and have experience with multiple generations, so the name should be useful as a symbol of continuity, " says David Rockefeller Jr.
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.
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