There are long term factors in terms of profitability and rising costs but what's really pushing the decline right now is a potent mix of environmental issues and politics.
And Dr. Oppenheimer, among other ecologists, points to global warming as perhaps the most significant long-term factor.
The biggest long-term factor in the oil price is the cost of replacing oil wells as they run out ("deplete" in industry parlance).
"As Funds Disappear, So Do Orchestras" (Arts pages, May 14) didn't mention one long-term factor playing a role in the demise of orchestras: the absence of arts and music education in financially strapped public schools.
In PPNews, the long-term factor is the particular news category that a user is interested in.
As a long-term factor controlling basin evolution and sedimentary processes, tectonics events in this region therefore influenced the present day climate system.
The key is to focus on long-term factors.
Several other long-term factors had also contributed to the possibility of war.
Executive remuneration should be linked to long-term factors, and remuneration contracts should be publicly available.
But these are long-term factors; they can't tell us about the next 6-12 months.
