And land ownership often raises thorny issues about who belongs to a place and who does not.Agriculture is a long-term worry.
He described Mr Kerry as a "tax-and-spend" type, but his plans seem to show him as a "cut-taxes-and-spend" type, not obviously a superior breed.Funding the baby boomers' retirement is a long-term worry, which will really begin to bite only after the winner of this election finishes his four-year term.
Mr Spiers said the cost of repairs was a "long-term worry", but the property had 2ft (0.6m) thick walls and had stood through many floods.
The other argument derives from a seemingly myopic conflation of the short and the long term: worried about the scary rise of Social Security and Medicare spending in future decades, voters demand budget cuts now.
Women who tested HIV positive were happy with the immediate counselling, but still expressed long term worries about survival with HIV and the care of their children.
Player safety might be a long-term concern – and whether worries about player safety will mean fewer children play the sport to begin with – but if the league can change substantially enough to mitigate those issues, there would seem to be little that could immediately damage the N.F.L.'s popularity.
Power prices are a genuine long-term worry for the smelters.
But, as the information provided by General Odierno shows, Shiite militias remain a major long-term worry.
When I started asking editors about it, they first brought up the fifth, sixth and seventh paragraphs, which said that while the American military has been focused on operations against Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a Sunni group, the increase in the use of E.F.P.'s was powerful evidence that Shiite militias remain a major long-term worry.
A much more serious long-term worry, they say, is Brazil's lack of infrastructure, particularly its limited and poorly maintained highways.
Thing Two: Medicare, Not MediSCARE: If anything gets the deficit scolds' boxers in a bunch, it is Medicare, which is indeed something of a long-term fiscal worry.
