How do you make the average person on the street listen up and confront the 'abstract' threat of climate change when in everyday life people are juggling a myriad of short term responsibilities, decisions and stresses?
The operation is seen as being short-term, with responsibility handed back to UN peacekeeping forces once order is restored and the immediate emergency over, Mr Bush promised.
"For the sake of short-term financial responsibility and long-term organizational stability we must act".
Government officials in Iceland said that they expected the process to take more than a year but added that they had enough central bank reserves to cover the country's short-term financial responsibilities.
It was too easy for traders to cash in on short-term gains and skirt responsibility for any time-bombs they had set ticking.Asymmetries wreaked havoc in the vast over-the-counter derivatives market, too, where even large dealing firms lacked the information to determine the consequences of others failing.
At a time when the private finance initiative in the UK is collapsing into a discredited mess – in the case of Carillion, so literally discredited that the company is bankrupt – across the Atlantic another public body, the city of Toronto, is trying to solve its short-term problems by handing responsibility for part of its infrastructure over to a giant private company.
However, those who do so are likely to build trust over the long term even though they might pay a short-term price for taking responsibility.
Instead, they listened to a few industry players eager to cut costs and to maximize profits in the short-term, while shirking their responsibility to help America's booming natural gas industry stay competitive for decades to come.
Dedicated trainers were initially recruited for the project only on a short-term basis, thus the responsibility for training new CHWs fell to the supervisors in the later phase of the project.
It is balanced in the sense that – unlike the Republican version, which is a radical bet on austerity and the mercies of the ungoverned marketplace – it harmonizes short-term needs and long-term responsibilities.
