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Regardless of the moral calculus of the clash in Gaza, Israel’s short-term, violent tactic will, in result, counter what should be the ultimate goals for the region: a lasting peace and stability...
...While this means we have to put off these improvements, including the investment in energy efficiency, we will be saving operating expense in the short-term, and we think the trade-off is a good one,” Ouellette said...
...right. But some analysts believe baseball's business decisions will cost the sport down the road. "They gave up too much equity," says Marc Ganis, president of SportsCorp Ltd., a consulting firm. "The initial wide distribution is a great short-term benefit. But it's almost like they're assuming they would not have grown. They could have gotten into 50 million homes and beyond without sacrificing one-third of the ownership. Major sports programming is something viewers will always find...
Kahn said that she may dip into some discretionary funds as a short-term solution to continue the research...
...That leaves the international community with two unappealing options. The short-term fix is to try to neutralize the pirates by pursuing them on land. Hence a U.S. draft proposal authorizing military action inside Somalia currently before the U.N. Security Council. But sending troops into Somalia is fraught with danger, as the American soldiers of Blackhawk Down, and now the Ethiopians, know to their cost. Present day U.S. operations against the Islamists - publicly confined to air strikes, but also including some clandestine fighting on the ground - have killed two significant leaders, including the bomb-maker in the 1998 al-Qaeda...