It is a sound long-range strategy.
The goal of building the best roster, and burnishing a valuable brand, can trump any long-range strategy.
"I think he's very hot to get" DirecTV, Mr. Vogel said, "because it fits in with his very long-range strategy to be a global media distributor.
Do we want a leader who jumps erratically from tactic to ineffective tactic, or one who uses a disciplined, long-range strategy?
Every four years, Congress requires the Pentagon to produce its Quadrennial Defense Review, an assessment of long-range strategy and the budgets to pay for them.
While opinion polls show the prime minister enjoying solid public support, his efforts to cling to a ground somewhere between war and peace talks has fed criticism that he lacks a long-range strategy.
The Administration came up with a budget that is wildly, perhaps dangerously, out of balanced not because the President has a canny long-range strategy but because he does not accept that there is a real problem.
He ran fifth in Dubai two years ago and twice finished seventh in the Classic, so Bond is making long-range strategy for his horse's last year in racing.
The tenor and pace of attacks speak to the Taliban's long-range strategy, in which civilians are regularly reminded of the militants' resilience in a place where government control has always seemed tenuous.
Poland was critical to Hitler's long-range strategy for the conquest of Lebensraum in the east; any invasion of the Soviet Union required that Polish territory be available as a staging area.
These are just two conductors who have proved themselves not only as world-class musicians but also as experts in development, audience-building and long-range strategy, attributes that may soon put them on wish lists in music director searches for major American orchestras.
