Valuing these liabilities is tricky because they stretch many years into the future and their current worth swings wildly in response to small changes in the "discount rate" used to value it.
"Given that we know being overweight significantly increases risk of gestational diabetes, we need to get across the message to women that making sure they are a healthy weight is important for their child's health and that this health benefit may stretch many years into the future," she said.
Mr. Schwartz, like many other appointees, has ties to the Cuomos stretching back many years.
There are invisible connections stretching back many years between the most unlikely characters.
The list of individuals appears to chart the history of protest stretching back many years.
But few with experience are optimistic about the prospects of what would almost certainly be diplomacy stretching over many years.
They were also amazed by the series of newspaper articles I showed them, stretching back many years, which heaped scorn on Brussels and all its works.
By 2012, however, published Libor rates stretching back many years were discredited after regulators found that Barclays and other banks had sought to manipulate the figure.
The deal, concluded in a Vienna hotel after prolonged talks between foreign ministers, binds Iran, the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China to a series of undertakings stretching over many years.
The Bush administration has put together an aid package for Pakistan that is likely to total several billion dollars and includes sweeping debt rescheduling, grants stretching over many years and trade benefits as a reward for its support against terrorism.
