And I have to admit -- that "long term" arrived one heck of a lot sooner than I ever would have expected.
Payment by results is a frightening possibility because for some of our women the results will be a long term arriving.
The trouble with all this of course is that while CEO Stephen Elop says its Windows Phone plans will rescue the company in the long term, by the time that long term arrives, the pummelling from iPhone and Android devices will only have gotten worse.
In broad terms, around half of long-term immigrants arriving for work are EU citizens, up to 30% are non-EU and the rest are British citizens.
Benson and Chastain had been in a long-term relationship — they arrived in Hollywood together from New York more than a decade ago — and though the movies are not autobiographical, Benson allows that the relationship and its dissolution found its way into the work.
Jiang was in the stands for all of Saturday's breakthrough performance, and when it was over, Li was in tears in the players' lounge, overwhelmed by achieving their long-term goal — one that arrived with some help from a newcomer.
Carroll and Downing were signed for a total of £55m by Liverpool in 2011 but neither featured in Brendan Rodgers' long-term plans when he arrived as manager the following year and were eventually sold to West Ham for a combined loss of £35m.
We believe in the sexiness of long-term relationships, and we arrived in Valencia ready to romance.
Long-term immigrants – women who arrived in Canada 10 or more years ago.
We can rage against the dynamic or we can better adapt to it, thinking more about how we channel resources to those areas most affected, how we strike the balance between the needs of long-term residents and those newly arrived, and how we achieve balanced and harmonious communities.
All of this is concerning because many of the people removed or detained awaiting removal include long-term residents, including those who arrived in Australia as children and have spent the greater part of their lives living in Australia as part of the Australian community.
