It is also reasonable to assume that this would lead to substantive cost savings to the institution in the medium-term, in terms of financial costs no longer incurred.
Darren Shirley, an analyst at Shore Capital, said: "Whilst we fully expect Dairy Crest to be a beneficiary of inflation in UK and global dairy prices over the medium term, in the short term we keep a cautionary eye on the UK cream price, which has more than doubled since May 2016, and which could be expected to negatively impact butter volumes and margin through the second half".
There he declared China "a strategic partner in the short term, medium term, long term, and very long term".
The effect of accounting changes has also made easier the fiscal juggling for Osborne, giving an extra £71bn with which to pay off the debt in the short to medium term (though in the long term, the government is committed to pay that back).
Summary effect sizes for pain and disability were generally larger in the short and medium term than in the long term.
It has been helpful in the depths of the financial crisis but is not healthy in the medium term, for example in terms of returns for savers.
This indicates that the worse prognosis cancers required more intensive treatment regimes (including end-of-life care) in the short to medium term after diagnosis, but not in the long term.
34 Although exercise referral scheme programmes in our review aimed to increase physical activity in the medium term to long term, they were typically based on only a 10-12 week period in leisure centres.
When they do — and specialists agree that they will, at least in the medium term — the costs in terms of both human suffering and political and social upheaval are likely to make the 2007 price crisis pale by comparison.
Clinical excellence or favourable stage distribution that acted in the medium term should act in the short term as well.
Under the smoothing formula, employers would contribute less in the short and medium term, and more in the longer term.
