An after-the-fact investigation by the city's inspector general concluded that the decision to enter the lease contract lacked "meaningful public review" and neglected the city's long-term interests to solve a short-term budget crisis.
A Self Storage Association study showed that, by 2007, the once-quintessential client — the family in the middle of a move, using storage to solve a short-term, logistical problem — had lost its majority.
I would tell him to be wary of quick fixes and expedient shortcuts that solve a short-term problem but do nothing to change the underlying realities that brought about the problem in the first place.
Bury were after asking the PFA for financial assistance to solve a short-term cashflow problem.
"It solved a short-term problem, but it may cause us long-term headaches in terms of emerging test programs in other countries," Moltz said.
Our approximation scheme also solves a shortest path problem for a stochastic model of obstacles, where each obstacle's presence is an independent event with a known probability.
The economic dispatch often solves a short-term unit commitment problem together with the optimal scheduling with a fixed time resolution, i.e. usually on an hourly time resolution, under a large set of unit and system constraints.
Australia's chief scientist, Alan Finkel, observed this month: "If you want a worker who can solve a problem in a short time, with resources strung out to the nth degree, hire someone with a science doctorate".
This paper proposes a parametric search method to solve the BC-SP problem, which only needs to solve a series of shortest path problems, i.e., the parameterized subproblems (PSPs).
Here teams compete against other teams to solve a specific problem in a short time period and actually build something in order to win the competition.
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