Reducing imported energy lowers the current account deficit and begins the essential long-term task of curtailing dependence on politically unstable and unfriendly foreign suppliers.
Southern Sudan, in particular, will need partners in the long-term task of fulfilling the political and economic aspirations of its people.
What's really needed are adequately financed partnerships that span the globe, are based on mutual respect and are committed to the very difficult long-term task of fighting the disease.
He failed to prepare Texas for the long-term task of reforming state finances, and thus left the main items of state spending education, health and welfare in a bind.The most dramatic example is welfare.
The tough, long-term task of developing the next generation of fuels lies ahead, and some level of consistent public support for private-sector efforts will probably be necessary.
France has the highest birth rate (bar Luxembourg's) in the EU, but it still faces the long-term task of finding enough workers to provide its pensioners with their pensions.
Mr. Bremer's notion that he could run Iraq on the strength of decisive and firm management policies has given way, a number of Western and Iraqi officials say, to the realization that he desperately needs an Iraqi governing body to share responsibility -- or blame -- for the long-term task of establishing postwar order and stability.
Reducing soot emissions with filters or more efficient forms of combustion could lower global temperatures over the coming couple of decades and would create a breathing space for the more difficult long-term task of reducing carbon dioxide emissions, scientists said.
Only when changes that enhance capital mobility take place and when employment is increasing at a faster clip, can the federal and state governments attend to the long-term task of fundamentally restructuring their budgets and optimizing their spending and taxing processes.
