Bread and butter issues, like disabled people forced to pay the bedroom tax, often feel like more of a priority than a complex problem with longer term implications.
The longer term implications of the great melt of 2012 are hard to call, say climate scientists who caution that more research is needed.
A stuttering national economic recovery and continued public sector job cuts will add upward pressure on unemployment in some cities, which could have significant longer term implications.
Although construction of safe nuclear power plants may be feasible, and may help meet rising energy needs in the short term, ignoring the longer term implications of nuclear power may lead to even bigger problems.
"I'm more worried about the longer term effect of cuts in defence spending, and we don't know what the longer term implications are.
Writing in a letter to Judge Sheri Pym, Kondoker, Kondoker explains how his opinion on the case turned when he delved deeper into the longer term implications of the FBI's order.
More work is required to assess the medium and longer term implications and benefits derived from the new process and this will be undertaken as it becomes more mature.
Indeed the crisis in the Crimea could well have significant longer term implications: for Nato; for the European Union; for Washington's relationship with Europe; and for the future pattern of energy supplies.
"Danny Kennedy's response to recent legal cases displays a serious weakness as a minister and will have longer term implications both for ministerial authority and the ability to investigate allegations made by civil servants and others," Mr Murphy said.
The one-day operation model is integrated with the MDP by using the value of a state of commitment and battery at the end of a day to ensure longer term implications of the decisions within the day are considered.
Following paediatric burn injury mothers appear to be at higher risk than children for developing psychological sequelae, which may have longer term implications for the child's outcome such as affecting compliance with treatment.
