"This mitigates the longer-term loss potential for the deal," he said.
"The longer-term loss to the taxpayer and the licence fee payer in the event that this contract goes wrong when it is managed in-house is much more serious.
One would restructure America's system of unemployment insurance so that the government focused less on smoothing the earnings of the temporarily unemployed and more on helping those who face a longer-term loss of wages.
There will be immediate revenue losses, estimated at £40m-60m, plus longer-term losses from passengers who stop flying with such a strike-ridden airline.
The report also described the longer-term losses to the city's economy, some of which may be related to the recession that was already producing layoffs and suppressing consumer spending.
Short-term weight loss is much easier to achieve than longer term weight loss and weight loss maintenance.
The immediate result would probably be new elections and in the longer term, a loss of confidence in the country's main political players, apparently incapable of getting their act together, even when the entire nation is urging them on.
In the longer term, the loss decreases to 0.6% but remains significant.
In the longer term, weight loss may be the key benefit.
This pattern of performance indicates that participants were influenced by instant rewards rather than by the longer term profits and losses associated with the task.
