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  • She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities. Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
  • The police took no further action but it led to a long-running feud between the pair. Times, Sunday Times
  • All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama 
  • It threatens to unravel a deal over the long-running pay dispute which led to an all-out strike.
  • We have grasped, perhaps more than any other nation, that there is a long-run cost to dependency on the state, including an aversion to risk that eventually enervates the entrepreneurial spirit necessary for innovation and prosperity. Beware of the Big-Government Tipping Point
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  • Eventually, with r rising and g falling, r would exceed g, which is the only sustainable long-run equilibrium position.
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donald Trump, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and dozens of others on the long-running sketch series, tells GossipCop. com that “retired from the show last year.” “SNL” Conan/Leno Parody, Featuring Larry King & David Letterman [VIDEO]
  • These, however, come under the heading of COLEMANBALLS, the long-running Private Eye column which records the goofs of sports commentators.
  • To the long-running, uncomfortable faux lovers 'quarrels with Simon Cowell and his equally embarrassing interviews with the singers, he has now added an arsenal of odd behaviors, ranging from petulant snits to flighty overexuberance. It's time for producers to fix 'American Idol,' and here's how
  • Universities and colleges welcomed the move, seeing it as victory for their long-running campaign to reduce the inspection burden.
  • Wednesday The hand percussionist and world-music hybridist Mr. Rudolph leads a long-running ensemble stocked with seasoned improvisers, like the oud player Brahim Fribgane, the cornetist NYT > Home Page
  • The council hopes the move could end a long-running dispute over the old tradition of drying washing across back alleys.
  • There has been a long-running dispute over the future of the bridge.
  • The union said it expected solid support for the latest walkouts against SWT in a long-running dispute over pay and disciplinary procedures.
  • He was a man without a conscience, and so long as his own ends and the ends of his friends were served, he would never scruple to empty the woman's girnel or toom her last basin, and leave her no morsel of food or drink at the long-run. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
  • A long-running pay dispute is disrupting rail services.
  • A long-running dispute in Scotland was settled before he reached the top, with a more generous pay increase than is on offer in England and Wales.
  • As a result, just last week, the parties to this long-running class action reached a settlement.
  • This analysis indicates the omission of substitutes does not significantly influence short-run price elasticity estimates, but results in significantly lower long-run estimates.
  • The Democrats, in their permanent role as agonistes in the long-running farce called "Democracy," just lie. Center for American Progress Action Fund
  • Anonymous trolls have subjected victims to vicious and long-running campaigns of threats and harassment. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the long-running debate about relocating the capital there is popular reluctance to award it the prize.
  • This process would continue until a new long-run equilibrium is reached in both industries. Competing in a Global Economy
  • Nothing of the drama's revitalization via cancer would have come as any surprise to veterans of "thirtysomething," Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz's long-running, long-ago creation, in which a lead character endured a bout with ovarian cancer that would make national news. Aging Well at the Top
  • The krona has been a top pick among many profit-seeking currencies funds as the country's solid economic fundamentals point to steady growth and higher interest rates, in sharp contrast to long-running stresses in the euro zone and elsewhere. Swedish Central Bank Raises Rate
  • More importantly, however, they have given added urgency to the long-running debate about the future of Britain's inner cities.
  • Businesses can also use this opportunity to invest in alternate, perhaps more efficient, energy sources - which will help our economy in the long-run. Oil Econ Follow-up, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Then there is his long-running and mysterious insistence on naming muscles.
  • Further claims in the long-running dispute could add up to 5bn. Times, Sunday Times
  • On Tuesday, news broke that the Justice Department dropped its long-running criminal investigation of Tamm. Democracy Now!: Ousted DOJ Attorney Thomas Tamm Speaks Out About Warrantless Spy Program
  • He said the dispute had been long-running and a cause of concern to staff and patients alike.
  • I know that my inability to act is my fault, based on several long-running problems, but being with them emphasises it.
  • Ginger White surfaced in bombshell fashion on Monday, telling an Atlanta TV station that she's "not proud" of what she described as long-running sexual shenanigans with the married GOP White House contender. NYDN Rss
  • His emphasis on short-term benefits versus long-run costs implies that winners are always losers in the end.
  • Prices should be set at greater than or equal to long-run marginal separable cost for each product.
  • The strike is over management's refusal to solve a long-running land dispute.
  • The intervention in a long-running antitrust case has caused astonishment in media circles. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bush wanted to express his satisfaction with a $1.5 billion payment that Libya made to settle a long-running dispute over compensation for victims of Libyan terrorism in the 1980s.
  • This is about a short-run strategy and not about a long-run strategy.
  • One of the long-running projects has been the orangery.
  • And while Congress is consuming itself in partisan acrimony over the $60 billion, it is doing essentially nothing about the multitrillion dollar long-run deficit—which, as everyone should know by now, hinges on The Big Four: Social Security, medical care, defense and taxes. The Economic Silly Season Is Upon Us
  • And sometimes, he even toys with his long-running fantasy of dropping out of the business and becoming a film director.
  • The possibility of endogenous social norms, and thus endogeny of long-run government policy away from any redistributive or compensatory role, is troubling in the context of Latin America. Remarks On Equity Issues In A Globalizing World
  • One obvious commonality is the fact that all this can loosely be grouped under the banner of long-running US drama.
  • The development, which follows a long-running campaign backed by the Guardian to clamp down on tax evasion, is expected to raise £1bn in extra revenues. Treasury to get £1bn windfall in Swiss deal over secret bank accounts
  • His was a personable, companionable, bland brand of humour based on the long-running gag that Hope was an inveterate coward.
  • He told the local media that he had returned to help to unite the opposition and to end the long-running civil war in the south. Times, Sunday Times
  • In return, no new sanctions would be imposed for the same period and formal negotiations to end the long-running dispute could begin. Times, Sunday Times
  • Another enjoyable mystery in the long-running series. The Sun
  • Tasked with nabbing an elusive bandit hiding out in a forest, this could become a long-running serial.
  • Thousands of rail guards at train companies across the country are to be balloted on strikes in a long-running row over their safety role.
  • All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama 
  • The action is part of a long-running dispute over pay and discriminatory performance systems.
  • Sikh busmen in Wolverhampton have won the right to wear turbans on duty after a long-running campaign.
  • Further claims in the long-running dispute could add up to 5bn. Times, Sunday Times
  • And, still in the long-run --- say, the next two or three decades (the maximum beyond which any half-way reasonable projecting is impossible, what with the speed of change these days and the uncertainties surrounding China's political stability and future) --- China will lucky to be much more advanced technologically than Taiwan or South Korea today. China Menace?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The dispute centres on a long-running argument about terms and conditions.
  • Instead, it seems that it is causing a more complicated destabilisation - inflaming long-running local conflicts, and gradually corroding nation states.
  • In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. Thomas Carlyle 
  • There is however a very large distance between these long-run theoretical considerations and empirical implementation.
  • The house price-earnings ratio is at least 30% above its long-run average, too big an overvaluation to be worked off gradually.
  • The state must appear class-neutral, the better to preserve the long-run interests of the capitalist class.
  • Tube drivers are set to strike again as the long-running dispute over plans for an all-night service continues. Times, Sunday Times
  • The advantage of the cointegration approach is that it allows one to integrate the long-run and short-run relationships between variables within a unified framework.
  • The Salford tenor settled a long-running legal dispute with a former management company two months ago but they say he has yet to pay up.
  • His ascension to MSNBC's 6 p.m. anchor slot signifies yet another episode in the long-running, much-debated drama called "The Transformation of Al Sharpton": from the street-level firebrand who made his name supporting Tawana Brawley in 1988 to a political candidate twice for Senate, once each for president and mayor of New York to the Twitter posting, Facebooking, radio-show-hosting modern media figure. NYT > Home Page
  • Onorato’s newest spots, which started airing late last week, reiterates the campaign’s long-running critiques of Republican rival Tom Corbett, seeking a contrast between Onorato’s record of balancing budgets in Allegheny County with the fact that Corbett has requested budget increases as state attorney general. Onorato starts TV effort to bring opponent down
  • In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. Thomas Carlyle 
  • Last year Human Rights Watch detailed the arbitrary arrests of 38 people in Cabinda, an oil-rich enclave locked in a long-running struggle for independence. Angola's human rights record
  • HP has also struggled with management turmoil and a long-running legal tussle with Oracle. Times, Sunday Times
  • What we're watching is the long-running victory of ballet itself over that pettiness and disarray known as being human.
  • Some are drug-related, but many seem to be the result of ongoing and long-running feuds between families.
  • Then there was the long-running comedy double act with Smith. Times, Sunday Times
  • The pair were said to be involved in a long-running feud over parking. The Sun
  • Then, from 1984 to 1988, Bosley played a recurring role in Lansbury's long-running TV series, "Murder, She Wrote," as folksy Sheriff Amos Tupper. Tom Bosley Dead: 'Happy Days' Dad Dies At 83
  • Afterwards it feels like the satisfactory completion of another episode of a long-running game show.
  • He said the dispute had been long-running and a cause of concern to staff and patients alike.
  • The long-running firefighters' pay dispute rumbles on.
  • Train drivers in the north of England continued a long-running dispute over pay this week.
  • Subsequently described as 'on-off' diplomacy, Obama's hesitancy to provide a stern response resulted in a misreading of intentions from the opposing sides in Honduras, but it became clear that Obama had little appetite to become heavily engaged in a potentially long-running dispute. Daniel Wagner: Obama's Unfinished Business
  • Long-run equilibrium demands that the net balance on goods and services becomes zero over the secular time period.
  • In summary, an exchange rate system needs to be sufficiently flexible to cope with long-run changes in countries' competitive positions.
  • They are part of a long-running dispute about new trains that are about to be introduced. Times, Sunday Times
  • The constitutional and organizational arrangements filter the interests of state personnel towards the long-run interests of the capitalists.
  • Police would not speculate on a motive, except to say that Avanesian had a long-running dispute with his wife.
  • The press secretary had his own assessment of the news value of the long-running story of Obama's BlackBerry: "Almost as exciting as the presidential dog." blackberry Pakdi
  • Madoff became known as the orchestrator of a massive, long-running scheme than included thousands of investors who had entrusted their life savings to him. Crain's Cleveland Business - News Feeds
  • But long-running rumours are developing an uncanny knack of coming true at the moment.
  • All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama 
  • Royal Mail and the union have been attacked for not resolving the long-running dispute. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. Thomas Carlyle 
  • Hopefully, some of the other long-running malacological publications, including the Journal of Conchology, the Proceedings of the Malacological Society, etc., will follow suit and make their old issues open access. Archive 2008-12-01
  • Short-term alternatives in cases of severe drought are often painful; in the long-run, growers and ranchers can work to improve irrigation efficiency, plant less-water intensive crops, and change livestock demands. Peter H. Gleick: When Climate Changes Come and Water Policies Fail. Pray for Rain?
  • Barbara Walters will officially announce next Monday that the newest member of the cackling bitches The View, is none other than Sherri Shepherd: Shepherd, who achieved moderate fame with a long-running stint on ABC's Less Than Perfect, as well as roles on The Jamie Foxx Show and the recent big-screen bomb Who's Your Caddy?, will fill the spot vacated by Star Jones Reynolds more than a year ago, marking the first time since spring 2006 that the chatfest will be able to boast a full fivesome at the table. Archive 2007-09-01
  • In each country, the long-run perfectly competitive equilibrium price equals marginal production cost plus the per unit tax.
  • The intervention in a long-running antitrust case has caused astonishment in media circles. Times, Sunday Times
  • All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama 
  • It can be read as a long-running dialectic between individualism and communalism.
  • The finding splits the difference in a long-running scholarly debate over whether people are solely African in origin, or spring from "multiregional" interbreeding of early human species. Neanderthals and humans interbred, fossils indicate
  • The police took no further action but it led to a long-running feud between the pair. Times, Sunday Times
  • Accordingly, saving is self-defeating, as a loss in income will disallow individuals to save over the long-run.
  • -- Business cycle fluctuations in production are best analyzed from a starting point that sees them as fluctuations around the sustainable long-run trend (rather than as declines below some sustainable potential output level). Keynesians and Monetarists, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Two hoped-for long-run radio serials of his had not been renewed after the first fifty-two episodes. FAIRYLAND
  • All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama 
  • All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama 
  • This had all the makings of another long-running acrimonious dispute, when again wider political events quite unexpectedly overtook the controversy.
  • HOUSTON — The Environmental Protection Agency moved Tuesday to end a long-running dispute with Texas over how the state regulates emissions, including cancer-causing toxins such as benzene and butadiene, from dozens of refineries that produce a third of the nation's gasoline and billions of dollars of petrochemicals. EPA Takes On Texas Emissions Regulators
  • In sum, data from this long-running panel study suggest that the current religious divide has cracked open because of both generational replacement and, to a lesser degree, individual change. American Grace
  • The long-running sci-fi series gets a reboot in this prequel. The Sun
  • There is however a very large distance between these long-run theoretical considerations and empirical implementation.
  • Outside the barren wastes of the Western Sahara, few people will be holding their breath to see what the UN security council does next week about the world's most obscure and long-running conflict.
  • The agreement, which effectively put OrthoClear out of business, followed a long-running intellectual-property rights dispute between the transparent teeth-aligner market competitors. Ex-Chairman of Chip Maker Raza
  • Unite made the claim in a national press advert to defend its long-running dispute with the airline. Times, Sunday Times
  • Separately, Gizmondo has settled its long-running legal dispute with the Jordan Formula One operation, Tony Smith writes.
  • Up to now no-one outside the lifeboat station has a clue what the long-running and acrimonious dispute is all about.
  • It's based on a long-running American comic strip, begun in 1913 by cartoonist George Herriman, in which the feline central character is repeatedly "beaned" by a mouse called Ignatz, "beaned" meaning to be hit on the head by a well-aimed brick. Tête à Tête festival
  • HP has also struggled with management turmoil and a long-running legal tussle with Oracle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Anonymous trolls have subjected victims to vicious and long-running campaigns of threats and harassment. Times, Sunday Times
  • In time, perhaps, the elusive Higgs boson might be found or not found, so conclusively settling the long-running grudge match between boffinry heavyweight Professor Higgs and his nemesis, famed wheelchair robovoice savant Stephen Hawking. The Register
  • Eventually, with r rising and g falling, r would exceed g, which is the only sustainable long-run equilibrium position.
  • The same applies to his long-running Korean-war vet cum knight errant.
  • Last year the Revenue lost a long-running court battle regarding troncs and National Insurance contributions.
  • She first watched the long-running sitcom while channel-hopping in the mid-1980s.
  • Her speechifying was made fun of, and her black and white, self-righteous attitude grew out of her own long-running self-involvement; it was very obviously intended as a character flaw.
  • A bubbly blond real-estate lawyer and former high-school classmate of the president's, Browning has self-published a novel, "Purposes of the Heart," which she describes as a fictionalized version of a long-running affair with Clinton (before she gave up finding a publisher, her agent, naturally, was the ubiquitous Goldberg). The Secret War
  • Plans to build a road through the gap have stirred up strong feelings on both sides of the long-running debate.
  • But now people like you and Bryan can clearly dominate these guys, so average journalists, and thus average voters, see issues defined more accurately: nonobvious long-run or indirect effects that are the result of extended study. The Internet, Punditry, and Scholarship, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • And far from marking a break with the cosy business-as-usual of French politics, Sarkozy's presidency has been mired in corrosive scandals, not least the long-running Clearstream, Karachigate and Bettencourt affairs, stuffed full of complex allegations of corruption, back-stabbing and wire-tapping. Nicolas Sarkozy: Is France falling in love again? | Peter Beaumont
  • All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama 
  • Government agencies responsible for bringing fraudsters and financial criminals to book have suffered serial criticism when long-running and expensive investigations result in no convictions. Times, Sunday Times
  • In 2008, comparatively late to the long-running gold party, we purchased the GDX (gold mining stocks exchange traded fund) across client accounts in cautiously small weightings. James Berman: Gold: A Little Gaudy in This Light
  • As Comic Book Resources reported earlier on the front page, DC Comics confirmed today the long-running rumor that All-Star Superman collaborators Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely will reteam in June for the new series Batman & Robin. The Dynamic Duo (Morrison and Quitely) strikes again! | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
  • All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama 
  • The police took no further action but it led to a long-running feud between the pair. Times, Sunday Times
  • A Balearic Islands court said Inaki Urdangarin—who is married to the king's younger daughter Cristina—will testify Feb. 6 over a long-running investigation into alleged improper use of millions of euros in public funds for tourism and sports conferences. Spanish King's Son-In-Law to Testify in Corruption Probe
  • Government agencies responsible for bringing fraudsters and financial criminals to book have suffered serial criticism when long-running and expensive investigations result in no convictions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet that orthodoxy is beginning to look a bit shaky if you examine very long-run equity returns. Times, Sunday Times
  • A long-running pay dispute is disrupting rail services.
  • According to the long-run theories, propensities are tendencies to produce relative frequencies with particular values, but the propensities are not the probability values themselves; according to the single-case theories, the propensities are the probability values. Interpretations of Probability
  • In contrast, spunky breeders underestimate the long-run benefits of progeny precisely because most of them occur well after childbearing is an option, such as creating people who will give a crap about you in 50 years. Princess Mahalanobis: Blog Baby, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • A long-running deadlock over who should clear up an unauthorised tip in Derbyshire has finally been broken.
  • His first year at the helm was an unprecedented success that resulted in three long-running hits—Gurney's examination of WASP moeurs, ‘The Dining Room’, Durang's scathing ‘Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You’ and Jonathan Reynolds's satire of Hollywood egomania, ‘Geniuses’.
  • This trend is about to produce some even more startling attempts to either resurrect the great TV detectives of the past or to revive interest in some long-running shows.
  • It's part of a long-running battle to get the Government to relax the restrictions on growing hemp for food and fibre.
  • She was involved in a long-running legal battle.
  • The long-running late-night chat shows with David Letterman (CBS) and Jay Leno (NBC) went on to poke fun at politicians routinely, even inviting them on to the shows in a kind of joust to test how much good humour they can muster in the face of the host's jabs. Adrian Monck
  • Further claims in the long-running dispute could add up to 5bn. Times, Sunday Times
  • All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama 
  • This long-running series specialises in epic battlefield action where hundreds of combatants roam through ancient China. Times, Sunday Times
  • The effort to green industry is a long-run issue, and eventually, costs will stabilise.
  • Police would not speculate on a motive, except to say that Avanesian had a long-running dispute with his wife.
  • Such an outcome would destroy what vestiges of credibility Scottish football retains as a result of this long-running summer farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • The long-running sci-fi series gets a reboot in this prequel. The Sun
  • Typical entry in the long-running whodunnit series. The Sun
  • The long-run effect, however, is even more deleterious and corrosive—the "hurdle" rate for investments also sags in direct relation with lower interest rates. Low Rates Encourage Dumber Investments
  • The long-running sci-fi series gets a reboot in this prequel. The Sun
  • As a result, the Horvat Collection houses a vast archive of zines - such as NAPA, the long-running zine of the National Fantasy Fan Federation.
  • THERE is something about the world of money broking that encourages long-running feuds and multimillion-pound legal actions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hopes of an end to their long-running dispute over pay have now been dashed.
  • There is long-running rivalry between the two teams which has escalated into violence more than once.
  • The two tycoons have been involved in a long-running legal dispute centring on the ownership of two of Russia's largest pulp and paper mills.
  • Unfortunately the formula that produces big laughs on screen is somewhat less amusing for the fans of this latter long-running tragicomedy.
  • And the new findings might help settle a long-running debate about whether dinosaurs were warmblooded, coldblooded—or both. The Speculist: June 2006 Archives
  • The union represents electricians, plumbers, cooks and maintenance staff and says the planned strike is the latest step in a long-running pay row.
  • Like Don Rickles, Barkley is best seen as a long-running act where he can say things that would be wildly inappropriate for most public figures. BCS title game in 3-D: Jarring, but also 'jacked up'
  • The findings, based on ancient human bones from a cave in Romania, add to the long-running debate as to why Neandertals, a heavy-browed, thickset species of human, eventually became extinct.
  • The company bosses have said it is ‘regrettable’ that a rail union official did not attend a meeting staged to help reconcile their long-running dispute over pay.
  • Tube drivers are set to strike again as the long-running dispute over plans for an all-night service continues. Times, Sunday Times
  • Budget Committee Chair Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Ranking Republican Judd Gregg (R-NH) commiserated that they were almost alone among their colleagues in their concern for the long-run credit worthiness of the United States. Matthew Yglesias » The Strong Dollar
  • The show's original star, John Nettles, previously best-known for his title role in another long-running crime drama, BBC1's Bergerac, appeared in the last of his 82 episodes last month. Midsomer Murders producer suspended over diversity remarks
  • Rayleigh Town Council finally won planning permission for the hardstanding in King George V playing field, in Eastwood Road, Rayleigh, after a long-running dispute with Rochford District Council.
  • One way of zooming in on the religious observance of different generations of American youth is to consult evidence from a long-running study of successive cohorts of college freshmen nationwide, conducted annually by researchers at UCLA ever since 1966.14 Every year this massive sample of young people has been asked if they attended religious services at least occasionally in the previous year—that is, their senior year in high school. American Grace
  • If you're not working on things that are likely to break that test, you might want to skip the long-running test method to speed up your compile-test-debug cycle.
  • The pair were said to be involved in a long-running feud over parking. The Sun
  • This tool can be handy for long-running tasks; substitute the program name for the sleep command, and it will iconify the window, do the work and get back in your face when it's done.
  • To distinguish between impacts that are due to a change in the one attribute and changes associated with multiple influences, it is common to differentiate between short-run and long-run impacts.
  • The new owner of a historic house at the centre of a long-running dispute hopes it will eventually be restored.
  • After only two months in office, he ended a long-running border dispute with Peru.
  • Anonymous trolls have subjected victims to vicious and long-running campaigns of threats and harassment. Times, Sunday Times
  • Residents in Cardiff are continuing a long-running campaign to defend the city's health services.
  • Because that was the only way to settle a long-running genetic dispute between sets of genes.
  • Tensions flared in the long-running Senate Whitewater hearings Thursday as a former Arkansas securities commissioner testified that she warned then-Gov.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court has bowed out of a long-running dispute over a DVD descrambling utility, dealing a preliminary defeat to Hollywood studios and electronics makers…
  • Striking train conductors are getting set to hold a referendum to see if a long-running rail dispute should continue.
  • If your individual propensity to save equals your individual propensity to consume then you are a maximally efficient member of society (you remove no wealth from circulation through saving/hoarding, whatever you call it) and although long-run PPC growth is a goal, as Keynes put it, "In the long-run we are all dead. Test Scores and Economic Performance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Jubilant residents were today celebrating a High Court victory in a long-running planning dispute.
  • Most TV drama consists of long-running series in a few dependable genres such as police and medical procedurals.
  • The French regulator detailed what it called a long-running scheme that pushed up prices for consumers before finally falling apart when the group's interests diverged. Dirty Secrets In Soap Prices
  • The long-running sci-fi series gets a reboot in this prequel. The Sun
  • Most of us still have the capacity to take additional actions that would improve both short-run and long-run growth prospects," and the biggest risk to the global recovery is that advanced nations underachieve on growth, Mr. Geithner said. Geithner Takes Aim at China Currency
  • Yet that orthodoxy is beginning to look a bit shaky if you examine very long-run equity returns. Times, Sunday Times
  • the long-run significance of the elections
  • Consequently, producers increasingly geared their films to female audiences, including “a long line of motion picture serials featuring female heroines” such as the long-running and enormously popular series What Happened to Mary and Hazards of Helen. A Renegade History of the United States
  • Eventually, one side or the other of that divide will get the kind of popular mandate it needs to resolve our long-run budget issues.
  • The key debate was around the future of the long-running dispute over low pay and management's imposition of a discriminatory pay assessment scheme.
  • The long-running battle between the TV picture providers is almost over. The Sun
  • Food crises hit the poor doubly hard—through their short-run hunger and their long-run loss of opportunities and hope. Failed Policies Lead to Food Shortages
  • There have been long-running arguments across the UK about repatriation.
  • Most today think of the phrase “law and order” as the title of a successful series of long-running television programs. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
  • A feature of this long-running dispute has been the Government's two-faced approach.

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