These are no-brainers, and should take precedence over any long term talk about generating jobs or strengthening the safety net.
A Taliban-endorsed ceasefire, to build confidence around long-term talks supported by many international governments, might also be conceivable.
For the long term, he talks of better infrastructure, education (he points to 400,000 extra teachers and 210,000 extra classrooms) and more investment in R&D.
The centre-back added: "In the long term people talk about the top four in the Premier League.
Politicians in state houses around the nation scrambled to win the near term and lose the long term by talking about immigrants as a threat to the United States.
"When I say unsustainable in the long term, I'm talking about over 20, 50 years.
Long term, we're talking about speed, efficiency, because what we're doing in the factories is really not that different than you would do on the site.
When I say unsustainable in the long term, I'm talking about over 20, 50 years … I don't like the idea of a licence fee, I would prefer to link it perhaps to some other tax, and I think decriminalisation is almost certain to happen.
On Thursday, Yahoo said that it had concluded that selling its search business alone to Microsoft would not be in its best interests over the long term and that all talks with Microsoft were over.
"It will be a position of huge importance to the development of English cricket over the long term but during our talks the limitations of the role became clear to me".
The second long term health plan 1997 2017 talks about establishment of a coordinating body with access to information on health expenditure of all ministries, INGOs, NGOs and private sector [ 23].
