The pyramid should be seen as sustainable in that these responsibilities represent long term obligations that overarch into future generations of stakeholders as well.
Bonds are a long-term obligation.
Haphazardly played, relationships yielded disastrous effects on social reputation, piled on long-term obligation, and whittled away ones self-respect.
That created the illusion that the long-term obligation was zero, not billions of dollars, and made it easy for the state to enhance its already rich benefits.
Mr. Bush's aides counter that by giving individual workers their own retirement accounts, which can be invested in financial markets, they decrease the government's long-term obligation to pay benefits out of tax revenues.
But because Mr. Bush's plan would give workers their own retirement accounts, it would decrease the government's long-term obligation to pay benefits out of tax revenues, which is another form of debt reduction.
It has also provided chief financial officers at the drop of a hat for such tech firms as Internet REIT and Axcient.Another common reason to take on managerial temps is to tackle a short-term problem without acquiring a long-term obligation to an expensive executive.
So while the need for improved GPS signaling to Afghanistan is a priority, the long-term obligation of preserving fuel aboard the satellites prompted Strategic Command, and its subordinate unit overseeing satellites, Air Force Space Command, to allow up to two years to get the new satellites in place.
"We do have concern about the fund being able to meet its long-term obligation," Scott F. Porter, an actuary with the firm, Milliman, told trustees of the New Jersey Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund when he presented his annual update on the financial condition of the fund.
The benefits for the gig worker are typically a flexible lifestyle, the ability to work remotely, the opportunity to pick up extra hours or shifts in a second job, and no long-term obligation.
Proposition HHH opponents, representing anti-tax and neighborhood groups, assail the measure for creating a long-term obligation with little immediate impact on the presence of homeless people on the streets.
