Now with the long-term wait for interviews, people are just not willing to wait so long".
Mr Blair went on to list Labour's NHS achievements - starting with the end of long-term waiting lists.
However, it may be easier to find and approach patients in outpatient waiting areas where there are often many patients with similar long term conditions waiting, compared to the few patients in different general practice waiting rooms.
"I can't disagree with that," said Mayor Russo, "but my point is: We really have to figure out, with all deliberate speed, how to end this long term of waiting and get to the long-term reaping of the rewards".
But you might be better off in the long term by waiting a while and saving up a larger deposit.
Hotfoot from his job as Canada's central bank boss, he must conjur sustained and strong growth from an economy that remains highly indebted, and is suffering from a lopsided recovery that favours services over manufacturing while the government prefers to hack at public spending with little thought for its long term impact while waiting for something to turn up.
However, the long term effect on the waiting list seems to be limited.
In fact, the authors point out that other research has shown that poor girls who have babies when they are teenagers do not suffer much worse economic outcomes in the long term than their peers who wait to have children.
But real estate executives say that many of the property owners in the rezoned area have invested for the long term and are willing to wait until the situation in lower Manhattan becomes clearer and the overall demand for office space improves.
Fast food workers, as well as members of the nation's fastest growing workforce, long term care workers, aren't waiting around for legislators to decide when it's time to act.
Alternatively, the wait period can be viewed as the length of time between the client's decision to seek treatment to the time they actually present for services [ 10, 17], or the time clients spend waiting for long term treatment while receiving short term services [ 18].
