They've adopted a strategy of long-term attrition.
Smith Barney's total count of brokers has decreased by 500, but the spokesman said the bank's long-term attrition was below industry averages.
But politicians with no military experience, who are more concerned with interest rates, credit crunches, house prices and unemployment, should say this and the troop-contributing nations can resign themselves to the steady, long-term attrition of their soldiers committed to an unwinnable war.
The Swiss military strategy was changed from one of static defence at the borders to protect the economic heartland, to one of organised long-term attrition and withdrawal to strong, well-stockpiled positions high in the Alps known as the Reduit.
In addition, low temperamental activity level predicted long-term attrition.
Working status was a significant predictor of long-term attrition before but not after Bonferroni correction.
Low educational level was the only significant predictor of long-term attrition after Bonferroni correction.
Attrition at one- and 15-year follow-ups was chosen to represent short-term and long-term attrition, respectively.
This indicates that the DAS28 at week 14 or 22 can predict long-term attrition better than DAS response or ACR response can.
An important question when examining long-term attrition was whether those who stayed and those who dropped out differed on psychological and social variables at baseline.
Both short-term and long-term attrition should therefore be studied to examine whether samples in long-term studies become increasingly biased over time.
