Both countries have far more long-range nuclear weapons than they need.
And it gave me far more long-term opportunities than I ever would have had without that.
A week or so later, I returned to the Tabernacle for a far more long-established event.
"Here is far more long-term," Mr. Steinhardt said, noting with a resigned laugh that many of the trees he plants won't mature until after his death.
The Great Recession was turbo-charged by a financial crisis, making it a far more insidious affair that typically has far more long-lasting effects.
"There are other dimensions to the relationship with the Chinese that are of far more long-term importance than national missile defense," Mr. Berger said in an interview.
A few bloggers and columnists have recently had to make this point, because there's a danger of the hysteria and vitriol in chattering circles inflicting far more long-term damage on the Party than the protracted competition itself.
To have a message of equality constantly coursing through our daily lives and dominating headlines has far more long-term value than whatever might be gained by an official programme.
On the other hand, distal hazards can have far more long-range consequences.
I see it as a backwards-looking quick fix that will do far more long-term harm than short-term good.
