Stand-alone chairmen could focus more on long-term issues, such as convening a version of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference for the post-cold-war, Internet age.
My big question is when they will shift from crisis management to addressing the long-term issues, such as too-big-to-fail and deficit reduction.
He added: "Short-term infections that affect large numbers of people can have a very significant impact on the economy and health services, and long-term issues such as arthritis that are associated with Chikungunya can very badly affect patients.
This seems to me to be a distraction tactic, steering the debate away from serious and long-term issues such as funding crises and teacher shortages," he will tell delegates, according to extracts released by the HMC.
Bear Stearns maintained a "peer perform" rating on eBay and said despite likely strong results for the current quarter, long-term issues such as the integration of recently acquired VoIP firm Skype could keep a lid on the stock.
This is often the case of uncertainties linked to energy security and transitions, where the weakness of scientific evidence over long-term issues such as peak oil and climate change impacts hampers the reconciliation of opposite political positions on various matters.
She's the director of Shields for Families, a South Los Angeles nonprofit that helps low-income families deal with basic problems like shelter and transportation, and long-term issues such as mental illness and substance abuse.
However these studies typically do not address long-term issues such as visual processing, memory or plasticity because certain fluorescent proteins and voltage sensitive dyes may cause damage in the neuronal tissue over such time scales [12], [13], [14].
There is a growing consensus that other issues of long-term outcome, such as quality of life, are worth studying [ 16].
But this quick term change brings up a host of long term issues about the future of the networks such as -- who paid for this fiber optic swap-out of the copper wiring?
Managing long-term environmental issues such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity is of critical importance to efforts to achieve sustainability.
