But it does long range damage to our notion of supporting a person who is truly the hurt party in a crime: the victim.
"We did long-range planning for this," he said.
Darpa prides itself on doing long-range, highly innovative research that often fails but can have a huge impact if it succeeds.
But it is equally well suited for those doing long-range planning, with a burgeoning list of sites taking varied approaches to serving ski travelers.
"All in all, I think they're moving in the right direction," he said, "but it's more important to do long-range planning.
"I have made it my priority when we are in meetings and doing long-range planning [to remember] things like ballet performances, sporting events, parent-teacher conferences.
In the meantime, he added, it was "very difficult to do long-range planning with a government that moves as much as this does on so many issues".
The union also told players and their agents several months ago to do long-range planning with financial advisers to prepare for a lockout.
Col. Ben F. Robinson Jr., a weapons systems officer with the unit's 106th Squadron, which does "long-range oblique photography" as part of the intelligence-gathering effort of the American forces.
Supported by a $10,000 grant from Toyota, 14 students from Lakeland High School in Shrub Oak, which has a popular weather club, and nine students from Fox Lane High School in Bedford, where students have been recording pollen counts, spent five days at Fox Lane learning how to read weather maps, take pollen counts and do long-range forecasting.
His scattered style as an administrator — he had a bad reputation for returning phone calls, refused to delegate and once boasted jokingly that "one of my strong suits has been the inability to do long-range planning" — masked his shrewd persistence in forging coalitions and delivering on the commitments that kept them together.
