While Wright pleaded his case to investors, Rothrock, the lead VC, hunted for a longer-term chief.
In the longer term, tourism chiefs are worried about climate change.
"Saving some reefs in the short-term provides more opportunities for recovery and sustainability over the longer term," said Brainard, chief of the Coral Reef Ecosystem Program at NOAA's Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. .
"We think there is tremendous opportunity longer term," Larry Stone, president and chief operating officer, said recently.
"If you were the Australian publisher of one of Flanagan's earlier books then it may have meant you were less able to support the longer term investment needed," the chief executive of the Australian Publishers Association, Michael Gordon-Smitoldtold Guardian Australia.
"We are also seeing signs of a revival in housebuilding, which should help bring supply and demand into better balance and curb upward pressure on prices over the medium and longer terms," said Martin Ellis, chief economist at the Halifax.
"Rather than having to choose between milking decaying assets into oblivion on one hand and indebting itself to undertake massive investment on the other, BT now has the possibility of a more modest third way, capturing cost savings and reinvesting them in a more benevolent regulatory regime to sustain a longer term future as the country's chief network access player.
But Washington also needs to aggressively pursue longer-term solutions, chief among them cutting-edge air traffic control systems and relieving congestion on runways and taxiways.
In February 2011, Xstrata's chief, Mr. Davis, called it "unsustainable in the longer term" to have the two companies listed separately.
In the longer term, he or she will have the task of reassuring business chiefs that the new leader is not pursuing a vehemently anti-industry agenda.
