England's management were at pains to stress that this has been a long-term issue for Trott, not something triggered either by his travails against Johnson at the Gabba or David Warner's comments afterwards that he had "scared eyes".
With its proud corporate culture, its devotion to long-term planning and its powerful unions (the Confédération Générale du Travail jointly runs the firm, in effect), EDF is sometimes described as a miniature version of France itself.
But the travails of the AOL Time Warner unit -- mostly resulting from the expiration of lucrative, long-term contracts -- obscure some promising trends in online advertising.
The most obvious answer is that he senses his long-term political survival depends on keeping his wall-adoring base behind him as his legal travails mount.
Her travails underscore the central concern economists have over the lingering number of long-term unemployed: The longer workers have been out of a job, the harder it is for them to get hired.
a This category contains two policies: a temporary hiring subsidy ("Plan Activa") received by the employer who hires a long-term unemployed person aged at least 45 years old and an in-work benefit (Complément reprise du travail) paid when some unemployed aged 50 years old and over finds a job.
Furthermore, the biggest patient-centric winner to date is likely Fitbit, whose post-IPO travails reflect the reality that we are still early in this transition and in understanding where long-term value will be created.
When the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management wobbled in 1998, Bear Stearns, an American investment bank, refused to join in the rescue (hence the Schadenfreude at its recent travails).
Style, short-term shaping, long-term architecture.
