In government, the process of providing a service or «product» is often complex, with multiple interactions taking place
over long timeframes with little by way of tangible outputs.
In short, the book covers more markets
over longer timeframes with a higher level of comparability than previous benchmarking efforts.
Not exact matches
This could be explored through the performance of secondary academies
over a
longer timeframe (e.g. five years or more), and of primary academies, including a comparison
with non-academy schools
with similar characteristics, and their impact on different pupil groups.
This slows the usually supersonic action down to a crawl, allowing you to, within that brief
timeframe, gain a vital edge
over your enemies, not always only in regards to speed, but also because enemies that you were previously not able to knock into the air can be
with certain combos, just as
long as Witch Time is activated.
So now I answer the «ice - age» denialist argument (denialists usually trot out ALL their inconsistent & contradictory arguments) this way: I draw a sine - wave in the air
with my hand, saying, yes, that the normal fluctuation
over a
long geological
timeframe is to alternate between cold ice ages and warm interglacial periods, and that now we are right here in a warm interglacial period (my hand raised at the top of the wave), and if there were no human GHGs, then we would expect that
over a
long time frame we'd be sliding down into an ice age.
As SkS has discussed at length
with Dr. Pielke Sr.,
over short
timeframes on the order of a decade, there is too much noise in the data to draw any definitive conclusions about changes in the
long - term trend.
In the UK, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has called for governments of all political persuasions to take more of a
long - term approach to planning such projects,
with a 25 -30-year horizon rather than working
over five - year electoral cycles or even shorter
timeframes.
Thus, the difficulties
with metabolic control persist
over a rather
long timeframe.