While the benefits to the State budget figures were indisputable, the social and longer-term economic cost of the Kennett reforms have been questioned by many commentators, academics and those who suffered economically through the period of reform.

Another longer-term result was the changing relationship between the U. S. and Japan, with the U. S. no longer openly supporting the highly artificial trade environment and exchange rates that governed economic relations between the two countries for almost five decades after World War II.

It responds to disaster situations, as well as focusing its efforts on the longer-term issues of economic and social policy.

Statistical measures of fixed investment, such as provided by the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the United States, Eurostat in Europe, and other national and international statistical offices ( e. g., the International Monetary Fund ), are often considered by economists to be important indicators of longer-term economic growth ( the growth of output and employment ) and potential productivity.

It would appear that although broader, longer-term economic benefits may result ( e. g. through reputation, or perhaps through simplified decision-making according to fairness norms ), a major factor must be that there are noneconomic benefits the manager receives, such as not having a guilty conscience ( loss of self-esteem ).

While the riots are often cited as a major factor in the decline of Newark and its neighboring communities, longer-term racial, economic, and political forces contributed towards generating inner city poverty.

This suggests that an investor would be best served by viewing this as a longer-term strategy by giving this portfolio of stocks time to recover in case of a rare but extreme economic event ( e. g. dot-com boom, financial crisis ).

Lomborg campaigned against the Kyoto Protocol and other measures to cut carbon emissions in the short-term, and argued for adaptation to short-term temperature rises as they are inevitable, and for spending money on research and development for longer-term environmental solutions, and on other important world problems such as AIDS, malaria and malnutrition.

In 2011, the International Energy Agency said that " the development of affordable, inexhaustible and clean solar energy technologies will have huge longer-term benefits.

In the longer-term, it is conceivable that population growth may be encouraged further from the urban core and discouraged nearer, potentially encouraging sprawl development and increasing fuel usage.

In the context of commerce, " research and development " normally refers to future-oriented, longer-term activities in science or technology, using similar techniques to scientific research but directed toward desired outcomes and with broad forecasts of commercial yield.

In conjunction with partners, the company had won a major contract from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) for the development of a next-generation rotorcraft, indicating possible longer-term product development potential.

Under this model, the Executive Committee, responsible for current decision-making, is shadowed by a scrutiny panel, known in CW as the Sensory Committee, whose role is monitoring and review, research and longer-term development.

The club released a statement saying Cork was released " with the longer-term development of the playing staff in mind and to allow the side to evolve ".

Oxfam's international programme has three main points of focus: development work, which tries to lift communities out of poverty with long-term, sustainable solutions based on their needs ; humanitarian work, assisting those immediately affected by conflict and natural disasters ( which often leads in to longer-term development work ), especially in the field of water and sanitation ; and lobbyist, advocacy and popular campaigning, trying to affect policy decisions on the causes of conflict at local, national, and international levels.

To address this, the Assembly of Notables sanctioned " the establishment of provincial assemblies, regulation of the corn trade, abolition of corvées, and a new stamp tax ", but the assembly dispersed on 25 May 1787 without actually installing a longer-term program with prospects for success.

One of the most intriguing questions is whether the recent departures of the Federal Reserve authorities from confining their open market operations to Treasury bills will spread into longer-term Government securities in the next few months.

Despite the above, the noun form in English (" attendant ") is someone who waits on another, generally with menial tasks and in a temporary fashion, as on an airplane or hotel ; whereas ' assistant ' implies a longer-term, higher level, and often contractual (= employment ), relationship.

Patients with this form of amnesia, have intact ability to retain small amounts of information over short time scales ( up to 30 seconds ) but are dramatically impaired in their ability to form longer-term memories ( a famous example is patient HM ).

* Maturity Transformation ( MT ): use / borrow cheap ( e. g. short-term ) money to invest at a more lucrative rate ( typically long-term projects for a firm ; or longer-term loans if the transformer is a bank ).

The IFC may provide longer-term loans or extend grace periods if a project is deemed to warrant it.

Patience ( or forbearing ) is the state of endurance under difficult circumstances, which can mean persevering in the face of delay or provocation without acting on annoyance / anger in a negative way ; or exhibiting forbearance when under strain, especially when faced with longer-term difficulties.

This is particularly true when the curve becomes inverted, that is, when the longer-term returns are expected to be less than the short rates.

The terms " myopia " and " myopic " ( or the common terms " shortsightedness " or " shortsighted ", respectively ) have been used metaphorically to refer to cognitive thinking and decision making that is narrow in scope or lacking in foresight or in concern for wider interests or for longer-term consequences.

The term is usually applied to longer-term debt instruments, generally with a maturity date falling at least a year after their issue date.

The US deficit is presented on a cash rather than accruals basis, although the GAO notes that the accrual deficit ' provides more information on the longer-term implications of the government's annual operations '.

In the longer-term, the key survival issue for Freckled Duck is likely to be habitat rather than hunting.

" This contrasts with the capital market for longer-term funding, which is supplied by bonds and equity.

* Early " failure " is a normal part of trying to stop, and more than one attempt at stopping smoking prior to longer-term success is common.

An HBOT treatment for longer-term conditions is often a series of 20 to 40 dives, or compressions.

The VP is also responsible for overseeing longer-term planning within the Society, and is essentially a permanent secretary.

Skilled motor tasks have been divided into two distinct phases: a fast-learning phase, in which an optimal plan for performance is established, and a slow-learning phase, in which longer-term structural modifications are made on specific motor modules.

Why this would happen is that when lenders are seeking long-term debt contracts more aggressively than short-term debt contracts, lenders decrease the rate ( the " cost of borrowing ") in order to attract longer-term borrowing.

Rikers Island is therefore a jail and not a prison, which typically holds offenders serving longer-term sentences.

A longer-term attempt to solve the problem of chronic congestion is the M74 northern extension, to act as the southern flank of the unbuilt Glasgow Inner Ring Road first planned in the 1960s.

Phenylbutazone is occasionally used in dogs for the longer-term management of chronic pain, particularly due to osteoarthritis.

As part of a longer-term plan for United States federal building security most of those temporary barriers have since been replaced with permanent security barriers, which look more attractive and are driven deep into the ground for sturdiness.

Dawa and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council are two of the main parties in the religious-Shiite United Iraqi Alliance, which won a plurality of seats in both the provisional January 2005 Iraqi election and the longer-term December 2005 election.

: The task facing American statesmen over the next decades, therefore, is to recognize that broad trends are under way, and that there is a need to “ manage ” affairs so that the relative erosion of the United States ’ position takes place slowly and smoothly, and is not accelerated by policies which bring merely short-term advantage but longer-term disadvantage.

The American Psychiatric Association and the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence recommend antipsychotics for managing acute psychotic episodes in schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, and as a longer-term maintenance treatment for reducing the likelihood of further episodes.

The UK has also experimented with providing longer-term use of management consultancy techniques provided internally, particularly to the high-demand consultancy arenas of local government and the National Health Service ; the Local Government Association's Improvement and Development Agency and the public health National Support Teams ; both generated positive feedback at cost levels considered a fraction of what external commercial consultancy input would have incurred.

A technology roadmap project, led by the Battelle Memorial Institute and hosted by several U. S. National Laboratories has explored a range of atomically precise fabrication technologies, including both early-generation and longer-term prospects for programmable molecular assembly ; the report was released in December, 2007.

After short positions at Cornell University and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, he was offered a longer-term post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to study turbulence in fluids.