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  • As Richard Alexander says: "Recognising where protection is needed for young families, balanced with a need to maximise saving for the longerterm should all be considered."

    A balanced investment 2011

  • The chronic surplus countries could be induced, by offering them additional voting rights, to invest a portion of their currency reserves or sovereign wealth funds in longerterm government bonds of less developed countries.

    George Soros: A Plan for Economic Recovery 2009

  • The annual report provides an opportunity for longerterm evaluation of progress.

    Results FROM THE Heart Kiyoshi Suzaki 2002

  • But I think, in the longerterm, it is certainly contemplated that NAFTA will be extended, or a NAFTA-like arrangement will be extended to all the nations of the hemisphere.

    Christopher Briefing On Summit Of Americas Meeting ITY National Archives 1994

  • And, again, I think that -- as I understood the question posed to President Yeltsin and his answer, he was speaking on a longerterm basis.

    Background Briefing On Us Russian Summit ITY National Archives 1994

  • But we're going to move those dollars to where they do seem to work -- longerterm training, for example, training that combines work-based learning with classroom learning, and also training that has specific jobs attached to it where the private sector has been involved in shaping the curriculum and provided some assurance that there are jobs at the end.

    Briefing By Labor Secretary Robert Reich ITY National Archives 1994

  • MS. MYERS: Well, I think the President, again, is committed to making sure that we make progress on the political track, that we create an environment that will allow the Somalis and the African leaders in the region to make progress toward a longerterm solution.

    Press Briefing By Dee Dee Myers ITY National Archives 1993

  • However, the American opposition to the French conception, and especially to the formation of a European military force based on a combined Franco-German Corps, makes longerterm sense only if one assumes an indefinite American military presence in Germany.

    Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993

  • UNHCR and WFP officials in the field should also help governments to formulate their requests to WFP in Rome for emergency and longerterm assistance for refugees.

    2.1 Food Aid Requirements 1989

  • It could resume buying longerterm Treasury debt or mortgage-related assets, extending a controversial programme that saw the Fed take on more than $1.5 trillion of these assets.

    The Economic Times 2010

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