Cuban and General Manager Donnie Nelson believed the C.B.A. had shifted the dynamics of team-building so significantly that overpaying, even for a player as vital as Chandler, could spell long-term doom.
Before the birth of the euro, the EU's single currency in 1999, big business and the City were adamant that if Britain failed to join, it would spell long-term doom for the economy.
The problem, however, is that the major oil company Royal Dutch Shell wants to drill in the Chukchi Sea this summer and that could, in the long term, spell doom for one of the last great, relatively untouched oceanic environments on the planet.
He concluded, "In the long term, Nook is doomed.
In the long term, his class is doomed.
Historically equities have been the best asset class over the long term – listening to the doom-mongers has been a mistake.
Though that would put the Markman fund at a disadvantage under the best of circumstances, since most stock funds outperform a mixed portfolio over the long term, it "pretty much doomed" him to failure during the roaring bull market of the last five years, according to Mr. Markman.
The best way to avoid short-term failure is to keep churning out the same old products, though in the long term this may spell your doom.
Very few flatmate "contracts" will ever work in the long term – flatsharing with strangers is doomed with or without a signature.
They will be able to defend themselves for a while young male nomads in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya all seem to carry submachineguns but in the long term, their lifestyle is probably doomed.For settled Africans, however, there should be more than enough land to go around.
Mr. Huckabee may well be doomed in the long term.
