The question now, for him and others, is whether the short-term bargains now being made will translate into long-term leadership.
Employability is a short-term bargain that assumes a conflict between the interest of the community and that of its individual members.
THE term "bargain basement" was supposedly coined to describe the first outlet of Filene's Basement, an American discount shopping chain whose bags scream "I just got a bargain!" in large red letters.
But they have only done so as part of a long-term bargain that would bring in more revenues, not as part of a hasty emergency deal to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling.
With the outlook for the economy and corporate earnings so iffy, he says that he doesn't know if stocks are a short-term bargain, but that they look cheap to him for anyone who can hold on for, say, a decade.
As for the comparison to Buffett, he has succeeded because of his uncommonly patient style, which assumes that genuine long-term bargains are relatively scarce, and that an investor needs to be willing not to buy anything for a long period of time if the price isn't right.
"The game is not about short-term bargains.
But despite both sides saying they were confident of a deal being agreed, sources suggested to the BBC the DUP were "getting to the limits" of what they were requesting in return for supporting the Tories - with the chances of a plausible long-term deal, rather than a short-term bargain to get the Queen's Speech through, diminishing.
The more unequal a society is, the more divided it tends to be, and the more difficult it is for governments to negotiate long term bargains. .
Thus, Professor Shaiken said, if Japanese-owned automobile companies are not organized the union "will face very different terms" in bargaining with organized companies.
One of the possible reasons might be that they were in better position in terms of bargaining power since they were more closely attached to BRAC compared to the CHWs who were not VO members.
