Whether having an aggressive mate represents a net direct cost or benefit is therefore likely to be population specific, but in environments where it represents a net direct cost, aversion to masculinity should be stronger in long-term contexts.
That's especially remarkable when you consider the long-term context: in the early eighties, there was a long period during which the federal funds rate was in the double digits.
As some readers may know, the conclusion that modern warming is unique in a long-term context came to prominence with the temperature reconstruction that my co-authors and I published in the late 1990s.
Mr. Bush is unlikely to refer to Mr. Maliki in Wednesday's speech, White House officials say; rather, he will use it to cast the war in the broader, long-term context of American foreign involvement in Asia.
Without such a long-term context to short-term decision-making, short-term targets risk being inconsistent with long-term plans, ultimately necessitating more drastic mitigation strategies in the future to counteract earlier policy short-sightedness," it said.
However, the findings in Science put this idea into a long-term context, and suggest that the oceans may be storing even more of the effects of human emissions than scientists have so far realized.
Environmentalists typically use the same sources, but, as Mr Lomborg lays bare, are much less scrupulous about setting short runs of data in their long-term context, for instance, or about quoting ranges of data, where that is appropriate, rather than whatever extreme of any given range best suits their case.
To my eye, this animated graph, produced by the federal Earth Systems Research Laboratory, is one of the best attempts to put the recent human-driven surge in carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere into long-term context: This version, posted on my YouTube channel, trims the initial rise to get to the visual take-home point.
The reconstruction gives ecologists, climatologists and water resource planners a long-term context for assessment of climate change impacts.
"Our conception was to place the Algeria war in its long-term context," said Colonel Christophe Bertrand, the exhibition's curator.
There are still basic uncertainties concerning the role of the hippocampus (HPC) in maintaining long-term context memories.
