Their relative stasis, if protected against the effects of time by fundamentalists, can allow for the adoption and implementation of long-term projects that span generations, even centuries.

They espoused a long-term strategy: think before you buy, and then, once having bought, continue to buy on dips and hold unless the company changed fundamentally for the worse.

We can be risk-adverse, say, short-term or long-term."

Shortterm and long-term investments are different.

Businessmen and industrialists were faced with destroyed factories, worn-out or antiquated equipment, and an unchecked inflation which induced them to shift their accounts into foreign banks or to favour short-term gains rather than long-term investments.

Throughout the uplands, accordingly, the area in crops was likely to be broken by wood lots and long-term fallows.

"For the second, any solution I'm afraid will be long-term.

This, of course, cannot be urged of the death penalty or even punishment for life, or for very long-term sentences.

And he had been offered a fair holding in this landtwenty thousand acres under fence on a long-term lease; a half-interest in the cattle and their increase.

But this is only a simple tale, with no great problem in it, save that of a boy working out his salvation between a fiendish lust for suspenders with trousers and a long-termed incarceration in ruffled waists with despised white china buttons around his waist-band.