All you need is long enough to get the words out.
"The moratorium is a short-term response, but what we need are long-term, permanent solutions.
"While a two-month delay offers some temporary relief," said Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, "what California families need is long-term health insurance security.
What we need is long-term commitment to investing in projects that serve to strengthen women's and children's rights to quality health care.
Whether their needs are long term or short term, many employees value flexibility in the workplace over anything else.
The list of needs is long: safe houses for those fleeing pimps; witness protection for those ready to speak out; medical and psychiatric help.
Well, what I think is sorely needed is long term, institutionalized, government funded programs to help school districts mitigate their high occupancy, collapse prone schools.
The list of pressing needs is long: The newcomers need tents, plastic sheeting and mosquito nets to help prevent malaria.
Right now what is needed is long-term political vision and a new willingness to argue for the benefits of continent-wide redistribution.
In order to achieve such complex objectives, what is needed are long-term policies and a grandiose revival of studies in the humanities and of a humanistic background on all levels (schools, universities, research, etc).
