The primary purpose of the bill, supported by both parties, was to forestall a 10.6percentt cut in payments to doctors that would otherwise be mandated under a longstanding funding formula.
This longstanding pattern only ever changed once, and very recently.
A tentative proposal from Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia for ending Middle East violence, based on a longstanding land-for-peace formula, would serve only to convince Israel that inflexibility toward ending its occupation works, Arab experts said yesterday.
"The distribution of these packs to new mothers at hospitals is part of a longstanding marketing campaign by infant formula manufacturers and implies hospital and staff endorsement of infant formula," wrote the study authors.
Under a longstanding New York tradition, landlords use a formula to charge tenants extra for common space in their buildings, like lobbies and stairwells, that cannot rented out; this is calculated by adding a fixed percentage to the actual measurement.
"With Toto Wolff, we have gained for our Formula 1 team not only an experienced motorsport specialist, but also a longstanding enthusiast of the Mercedes-Benz brand.
It elaborates on China's longstanding proposal for a negotiated return of Taiwan under a version of the "one country, two systems" formula, with even greater autonomy than was given to Hong Kong, which reverted to Chinese rule in 1997.
But how longstanding is longstanding?
