The easy answer is a resounding No.

Surprisingly he received an immediate response.

I can not give you an immediate answer.

I can't give you an immediate answer.

Today s short term crisis does not materially alter their long term prospects.

But the short run view is not the important one.

There is no imminent crisis about to happen, but Chavez must choose Venezuela s future.

The immediate priority is to put an end to this violence.

In particular, they are demanding the immediate removal of military troops in the province.

As part of the work on regional infrastructure, the Bank has developed a short term action plan.

School districts are increasing class sizes as they shed teachers, as well as deferring maintenance projects and curtailing the school bus service.

These cuts are having a very real and immediate impact on El Paso County s residents.

Barack Obama s first act as America s president was to ban torture immediately.

But, while ECT rarely, if ever, causes clear clinical evidence of brain damage and has not been shown to do so in animal studies, antipsychotic drugs regularly do, in the form of tardive dyskinesia and other syndromes.

Like antipsychotic drugs, antidepressants, and tranquilizers, ECT has an immediate organic effect.

As with every big occurrence, adrenaline rushes.

First, on a medium term time scale, the EU needs substantial immigrants.

Even DARPA has fallen prey to pressure for research that can demonstrate immediate progress.

Fiscal austerity, while necessary, means a deeper recession in the short term.

Again, such data do not demonstrate that Obama s policies yielded an immediate payoff.

Immediate words are normally executed during compilation, not compiled but this can be overridden by the programmer, in either state.

But the long term prognosis made especially dire by health care reform s inability to make much of a dent in rising medical costs is sufficiently bleak that there is increasing bipartisan momentum to do something.

This could generate financial strains over the medium term and protectionist pressures in the short term.

The United States is unlikely in the short term to embrace massive budget cuts, à la the United Kingdom.

So, yes, government spending provides a short term boost, but there is a trade off with long run secular decline.

Both powers have sought to use the Shanghai Cooperation Organization a regional grouping that includes Russia, China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan as a vehicle to pressure the US to withdraw its military forces from the region.

However, this cooperation represents a short term, tactical marriage of convenience rather than a budding new strategic alliance.

Not everything that is worthwhile has an immediate positive effect on financial bottom lines, or can be put neatly in a box.

Satu opsi jangka pendek yang patut dicoba adalah pembentukan pemerintah koalisi yang masih dipimpin oleh perwakilan dari kelompok minoritas Alawite, suatu persetujuan yang sepadan dengan mencopot jabatan Assad.

The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy created an extraordinary and immediate demand for additional bank capital, which the private sector could not supply.

3. Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary General for his rapid response and efforts regarding assistance to the Palestinian people

2. Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary General for his rapid response and efforts regarding assistance to the Palestinian people

The short term effect of Katrina was to drive stories about Iraq off of television screens and newspaper front pages.

But if Europe allows itself to be consumed by the short term crisis, it risks squandering an extraordinary long term opportunity.

By Tuesday he had to reverse himself and provide an 85billion loan to AIG on punitive terms.

If the oil price stays at 40 a barrel, expect it to have next to no effect on short term world GDP growth.

Any short term fiscal stimulus effect will have worn off, unemployment will still be high, and there will no doubt be politicians clamoring for more tax cuts.

What is needed now is the quick withdrawal of US forces, and their temporary replacement by UN led troops, which will hand power back to the Iraqi people.

To undertake an immediate review of the procedures established to protect reporters lives, and to make a swift and effective commitment to guarantee and protect freedom of expression in Mexico.

But the political reality is that China s government favors rapid growth in the short run over the structural reforms needed to sustain long term economic performance.

Direct interventions, restrictions on short term capital inflows, capital gains taxes, and stabilizing prudential banking regulations will all have to be considered.

But, in a currency union with huge differences in income and development levels, the short term can stretch out for a very long time.

What is needed now is the quick withdrawal of US forces, and their temporary replacement by UN led troops, which will hand power back to the Iraqi people.

Extravagant promises to behave better at some future point are not completely credible, although they often have a short term impact.

Direct talks should concentrate on two parallel tracks. They should attempt to produce an immediate cessation of violence from both sides while simultaneously focusing on a permanent settlement of our conflict.