Where there is talking to be done, focus on how the foundations are being built, how the people are on board, and why the investments are the right ones to grow long term.
His adoption of long- and short-run perspectives increased understanding of the long-term changes in macroeconomic indicators where, for example, a country's annual gross domestic product might grow long term but in the short term might suffer because of a sharp rise in commodity prices or a global economic downturn.
And at the top of Mr. McGreevey's list was the state's growing long-term debt burden.
"Today's announcements tell the world that Canada has a real, growing, long-term presence in the Arctic".
He acknowledged then, and since, that both parties would have to make changes to bring down the growing long-term costs of the government health programs.
Even now, months before any substantial drawdown, there are growing concerns about whether the Haqqani militant network, fresh off a blitz of attacks that paralyzed the capital for a day last month, poses a growing long-term threat.
Steve Forbes Chairman and Chief Executive Forbes Media New York, May 13 , 2008 To the Editor: Paul Krugman provides a sensible explanation of the fact that the huge increase in the price of oil within the last several years has been the result not of a speculative bubble but of a growing long-term imbalance between demand and supply worldwide.
Less than two years after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy pushed through a record tax increase for Connecticut as part of a package to reduce one of the nation's worst budget deficits, the state on Wednesday announced $170 million in spending reductions as the first step to address what officials described as a large and growing long-term budget shortfall.
Natural gas prices will reverse their recent decline because of growing long-term demand and slowing production growth due to aging fields.
If the board's focus is truly on growing long-term stockholder value, then the largest part of management's compensation should be based on achieving that.
