These proposals alone would consume nearly the entire surplus, as would closing long-term fiscal imbalances in Social Security and Medicare.
La Guardia and Newark were forced to close long-term parking lots that filled up early in the day.
Those include a commitment to complete additional trade deals with Colombia and Panama; steps toward a fundamental overhaul of the tax code; curbs on politically delicate entitlement programs that are needed to close long-term deficits and new financing sources for Mr. Obama's infrastructure goals.
Unfortunately, the present and the future will pay for the decisions of the past: Stores will need to be closed, long-term leases terminated and charges taken.
From the research councils' point of view, the scheme not only fosters rich training for early career researchers, but it also promotes "a closer long term collaboration between academia and industry".
In theory, this should lead to close long-term links between banks and companies.
Direct investment requires a close long-term relationship between the investor and the company that is invested in.This is an advantage in some ways.
Trudeau's Liberal party is billing this first official visit as an opportunity to build a closer long-term relationship with China compared with what party members call the "ad hoc" relations of the past.
Its appeal to customers was based on a reputation for value for money that in turn rested on close long-term relationships with almost exclusively UK suppliers and a highly enlightened, if paternalistic, attitude to staff welfare.
David Axelrod, Labour's newly appointed senior strategist and Barack Obama's closest long-term political adviser, will make mobilisation of Labour's grassroots central to the election campaign, a senior Labour staffer who has worked for Obama has forecast.
As with Bernard Herrmann, who had aspirations to be taken seriously in the concert hall but would be forever thought of as Alfred Hitchcock's composer, Morricone has formed close long-term relationships with directors who respect his vision.
