According to a report to be released today by the META Group, a technology research and consulting firm, federal employees involved in the government's e-commerce efforts said the biggest short-term obstacle was lack of money.
Scandal, cheating, and even crime are only short-term obstacles — there's always a second chance if you're the head of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.
Lastly, there is democracy, which might pose short-term obstacles, say to the reform of labour laws, but provides a long-term stability and resilience that China, for example, has yet to demonstrate.For all four reasons, it is hard not to be optimistic about Indian business.
Beyond all of those short-term obstacles, it is not clear that the bond-buying program will help ease basic economicweakness in several Southern European countries.
Now, Najarian is turning cautiously bullish on the long-term prospects of the banking industry, though he sees short-term obstacles.
Sometimes the path to fulfilling your destiny is long and treacherous, but seeing past the short-term obstacles in life is the key to success.
But some of his proposals face significant short-term obstacles.
Despite the disappointing news, CNBC on Monday reported that "many analysts remain bullish on the stock and believe these obstacles are short-term headwinds". Is this a short-term blip or a long-term trend?
Professor Kaufman acknowledges that one of the greatest obstacles to overthrowing capitalism is its ostensible success as a short-term solution: when capitalists are making profits, jobs are available, and thus the worker has a means of survival.
There is, however, a short-term strategy.
