Sentences with phrase «at work in the short term»

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The Mid Scotland and Fife MSP was backed in the short term by Unite's Scottish secretary Pat Rafferty who said: «Under Alex Rowley's interim leadership we are confident that the voices of Scotland's working people will be heard loud and clear at Holyrood.»

E-mails dug up by investigators in the Barclays scandal, he argued, showed a «cowboy mentality at work,» one «driven by short - term profits on trades that were in turn likely influenced by the bonus and compensation schemes in place.»

«It's a fight we don't want to have, though, because while these fights can drag on in international trade tribunals for years it really puts the pinch on smaller producers... In the short term, what I'm most interested in is protecting the ability of Nova Scotia forestry producers to continue to work without being subject to an unfair duty at the border.&raquin international trade tribunals for years it really puts the pinch on smaller producers... In the short term, what I'm most interested in is protecting the ability of Nova Scotia forestry producers to continue to work without being subject to an unfair duty at the border.&raquIn the short term, what I'm most interested in is protecting the ability of Nova Scotia forestry producers to continue to work without being subject to an unfair duty at the border.&raquin is protecting the ability of Nova Scotia forestry producers to continue to work without being subject to an unfair duty at the border.»

In the short term, Iâ $ ™ ll be working with the team here at Incisive to sort out whatâ $ ™ s working and what is not.

Investments in Related Technologies Lomiko's 100 per cent interest in Lomiko Technologies gives the company a chance at short - term cash flow to support its work at La Loutre.

If growth and inflation persist globally (consider some of the work @soberlook has been doing at The WSJ Daily Shot — a new favorite of mine, even his posts are too big) then almost no bonds except the shortest bonds will be any good in the intermediate - term — back to the»70s phrase «certificates of confiscation.»

But taking the fruits of exegetical method that was taught here at RMS, I got three methods as a short primer on what to do with the exegetical work in terms of preaching / teaching: 1, preach off of the exegetical outline (no time to prepare); 2, use the proper by the book method (Homiletics training); 3, use Pauls method of explaining the passage doctrinally for up to half, and spend the rest of the time in application.

«Fahmy will work closely at Arsenal with Gazidis and contract negotiator Dick Law, who will remain at the club in at least the short - term.

It may appear to work in the short term as you child hurriedly dresses to go out the door with a terrified look on their face at the thought of not having Christmas presents.

Though I do agree that often these motivational forces work, at least in the short term, they will not bring consistent motivation in the long term, especially in your home.

The simple answer is that on the surface, and in the short term, it appears that spanking works because it stops the behaviour at that moment.

In the short term, some countries may decide to use two approaches: supplementation to save lives within a few months, while at the same time working on improving people's diets.

Indeed, the referendum commitment has worked quite well for the Conservatives in the domestic arena, at least in the short term.

Suzanne will set the stage by talking about the changed media environment from her perspective as an experienced political communicator, I'll discuss the ways nonprofits can prepare to take advantage of new outlets both in the short and long term, and Kira will talk about several specific examples from her work at Environmental Defense Fund.

She put the Treasury cost of paying in - work tax credits to about 252,000 EU migrant households at # 1.6 bn a year, but did not spell out whether she wanted to remove tax credits from all EU migrants, or just those on short - term contracts.

George Miller, who helped coin the term working memory, argued that seven, plus or minus two, is the maximum number of objects most of us can hold in our short - term memory at once.

(At the time of applying I was in a short - term contract as a business analyst, and I had previously worked part - time in my father's company in market analysis.)

«Most climate models that incorporate vegetation are built on short - term observations, for example of photosynthesis, but they are used to predict long - term events,» said Bond - Lamberty, who works at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. «We need to understand forests in the long term, but forests change slowly and researchers don't live that long.»

The key mechanism at work, Kacperczyk emphasizes, is the «trade - off that you face between short - term profits and the long - term view, in that innovation takes longer to develop.

So anything we can do to make the lungs work better and anything we can do to make the lungs function better in the short term is likely to have lifelong impacts on how well these babies can think, how well they can walk, how well they can talk, and so forth,» said Dr. Shepherd, also a faculty member at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Although the term is also used to describe short, canned answers to questions such as «Tell me about your work,» (e.g., at scientific meetings), in an industry - hiring context, it's about trying to get yourself hired.

Firefighters who responded in the first two days of the World Trade Center disaster and those who worked at the site for six months or longer are more likely to need sinus surgery than firefighters whose exposure to the site's caustic dust was less intense or shorter term, according to new research published in the American Thoracic Society journal Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Two consecutive nights of extended sleep, a typical weekend occurrence, appears to counteract the increased risk of diabetes associated with short - term sleep restriction during the work week, at least in lean, healthy, young men eating a controlled diet.

January 18, 2016 Weekend catch - up sleep can reduce diabetes risk associated with sleep loss Two consecutive nights of extended sleep, a typical weekend occurrence, appears to counteract the increased risk of diabetes associated with short - term sleep restriction during the work week, at least in lean, healthy, young men eating a controlled diet.

Harding, a medicinal chemist, and Wright, a neuroscientist, have been working on their compound since 1992, when they started looking at the impact of the peptide angiotensin IV on the hippocampus, a brain region involved in spatial learning and short - term memory.

These professional societies also assist in identifying capable and visionary astronomers to meet the important challenges of working in short - and long - term positions at the federal agencies, particularly the NSF and NASA, where dedicated staff can have a significant effect on the progress of astronomy.

Memory has always been that kind of meta - mystery, and one of its greatest puzzles is the question of what's known as working memory: information we hold in short - term storage, like a phone number we'll need to call or a face we'll need to recognize at a meeting, and can then forget.

«When we work at high intensities for a number of short durations, we see the biggest bang for our buck in terms of results.

And they tend to work, at least in the short term.

In the past several years, nutrition and obesity research - in studying ALL types of diets - has continued to conclude that almost any hypocaloric diet that is not completely moronic can work, at least in the short terIn the past several years, nutrition and obesity research - in studying ALL types of diets - has continued to conclude that almost any hypocaloric diet that is not completely moronic can work, at least in the short terin studying ALL types of diets - has continued to conclude that almost any hypocaloric diet that is not completely moronic can work, at least in the short terin the short term.

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** Armi Legge: ** Every diet works, at least in the short term.

The distributor, Lionsgate, is the best in the business at promoting films like Saw, and the campaign might work — in the short term.

So are schools where teachers have 120 or more students to get to know (with this 120 shuffled at the end of each semester); where serious learning is broken up into snippets of 50 - minute «subject matter periods» arranged in no intellectually coherent order; where assessment keeps knowledge tightly packaged in separate intellectual domains; where short - term memory work is rated as deserving the highest value at the expense of original, long - term analytic work; and where the intellectual engine of the curriculum comes at most students and teachers as a list of subjects and skills, usually far too long for the careful savoring and devoted practice that leads to deep understanding and worthy habits.

Because a lot of things work in the short term and don't work long - term at all.

They look at purchases in terms of hours of entertainment, and shorter work is penalized.

But for promotional purposes, it does seem to be working, at least in the short term.

If you are in a position of authority at work, don't overestimate the importance of short - term events.

While someone could theoretically get financing even with a tax lien, it is certain that this financing will come at a steeper price (higher interest, shorter terms) to hedge the risk that a lender might have working and investing in that individual.

okay here's my two cents worth folks im up for renewal and have just nagotiated a rate 5 yr variable1.75 persent or if i want a five yr fixed at 4.49 still quite a gap between fixed and variable here i believe i have a little lee way here apparently i was only interesed in variable and five yr fixed but i made it absulutly apparent to them that when lock in from a variable i get the whosale discounted rate at that time and written into the contract i kinda believe this the way the market is heading as we head out of ressesion and the bank of canada is going to make there move i believe coming up in june and just to make this firm i do not believe the boc will raise rates in fast mode far from it will be slow process i don't care what the ecconmists are thinking we have to remember manufactering sector is reallt taking a hit on the high dollar and don't forget our niegbours to the south how dependent our canada is with them i believe it will be a slow process a lot of people heve put themselves in a debt load over these enormously low interest rates but i may be wrong i think a variable is the way to go if you want to work on that princibal at least should i say the say the short to medium term and betting that the bond markets stay put for the short to medium term - i have given enough interest to the banks maybe i can pay a little less at least fot the short to mediun term here i have not completly decided yet put i think im going variable although i wish my mtge was up a year ago that would have been just great congradulations to all that did.

As with any financial decision it is important to weigh the benefits and costs to arrive at a solution which works for you in both the short term and long run.

If growth and inflation persist globally (consider some of the work @soberlook has been doing at The WSJ Daily Shot — a new favorite of mine, even his posts are too big) then almost no bonds except the shortest bonds will be any good in the intermediate - term — back to the»70s phrase «certificates of confiscation.»

When we issued our first loans in March of 2012, it was hard not to be intimidated by the mountain of work we knew it'd take to build a company that within four years would issue over 3 million loans, see customers take a million of our financial education courses, and be able to save borrowers $ 55 million in 2016 versus what they'd likely pay in interest at other short - term lenders [1].

Trend following may also work in times of persistent excess (contango) However, the run of contango commodities experienced from 2005 - 2012, seems to have ended and commodities are currently hovering at the line near equilibrium where short term disruptions swing the pendulum quickly.

Founded by former Google CIO, Douglas Merrill, it appears to be an attempt at short - term consumer lending with a Google - like «don't be evil» approach and markets itself as an alternative to payday loans.The venture caught my eye when mentioned in the New York Times this weekend as part of a story about Gil Ebaz's work of adding value to different services by providing better, more reliable data.

He smiled at me knowingly and explained that while value investing works over most long - term periods, it frequently doesn't always work in the short - term.

Board and train can be effective in the short term because the dog spends several intensive weeks working with a trainer at an off - site location.

«Previously available treatments have helped with the management of allergic skin disease in dogs, but an unmet need still exists for a treatment that works rapidly and effectively with minimal short - and long - term side effects,» said Douglas DeBoer, DVM, DACVD, Professor of Dermatology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, an expert in veterinary dermatology and allergy.

At Check - in - London, we work with many companies in the construction industry who come to London for long or short term assignments or projects and we understand the logistics of sending a large group of employees to the city and the challenges it may bring.

For the visual arts, wood and metal - working shops, in addition to long - and short - term artist studio space, are available at flexible hours.