Donna Covey, director of the Association of Community Health Councils, said she hoped the report would trigger a debate on the long term future of the health service.
(Once it's raised and the world is not going to pitch into economic oblivion, everyone can have a terrific debate over the long term budget trajectory, propose laws, have votes, survive vetos and campaign on the results or lack thereof).
We concentrated specifically on duplication events, which are known to be an important source of functional diversity [ 29- 32] and where there has been a great deal of debate about the long term fate of duplicated genes.
Nor are they a surprise when academics come together, as they did recently at Princeton University, and debate the long-term legacy of a figure claimed by both the political left and right, by religious and non-religious alike.
Although debate continues about the long term sequelae of repeated head injuries [ 57- 60] we were not able to assess whether a history of repeated concussion would have explained part of the variation observed in the expression of PCS in this population.
While there is general agreement that limb-sparing techniques are the preferred approach for patients with upper extremity tumours (Cheng and Gebhardt, 1991; Aboulafia and Malawer, 1993), debate continues regarding the long term outcomes of amputation compared to limb-sparing surgery for lower extremity primaries (Nagarajan et al, 2002).
In the short term, investor opinion of Cyprus hinges on the toughness of its fiscal plan, which its parliament will debate later this month.In the long term, the country's fortunes are closely tied to its banks and, by extension, to Greece's unfolding fiscal woes.
So I sit there in my green jacket, happily chewing on a Twizzler that I probably left in a pocket in 1979, and I think: What would happen if Obama sidestepped the fruitless and short-term stimulus debate and instead focused on the long term?
But it also breeds a newly knotty historical problem – because all this sharing and debate mean precious little, in the long term, if you don't also know what people are talking about.
Although in the short term these proposals had limited consequences (Shang Yang's legacy was still openly defended by the government representative during the court debates in 81 BCE), in the long term the attitude toward Legalists changed.
Whether it's even possible to sustain that separation in the long term is up for debate.
