While this shift may hurt short-term profitability, it could be a very attractive long-term opportunity.
While higher prices may hurt in the short term, there's good reason to take a long view on the issue.
Regardless of who you support, the defeat of your candidate may hurt in the short-run; but the value of having that happened because of a process that gave you and everyone else an equal voice is higher than that of any single candidate in this or any election in history.
Although its game plan may hurt profits in the short term, it was a necessary sacrifice in order to secure long term market share.
Though it may hurt Dems in the short-term, labor is right to put its foot down, especially since Obama is hardly a pro-worker president.
Here's what that means: There are times when helping people in the short run may hurt them in the long run.
On October 17th, two days after, American air strikes near the town of Ramadi killed 70 people, including, according to some reports, women and children.Such tactics may hurt the enemy in the short run, but over the course of the occupation they have damaged America's cause.
Even though the truth may hurt your partner in the short run, your honesty will be necessary for long-term reconciliation.
Long-term, the gaps in the program may hurt Republicans and help Democrats; short-term, it gives Republicans a major accomplishment to run on.
In the short run that may hurt them somewhat, as the Russians cut back on imports of low-quality machinery.
Instead, it can spend money on big investigations and on innovative products that may hurt the bottom line in the short term but may pay off handsomely in the future.
