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We will not please everyone with the decisions we make but we must make decisions that do the least amount of harm and have the best long-term effect.
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The problem is the game was fixed, the rules made up as we went along with no regard to the long-term effect.
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Now it's fine, and probably correct, to make an argument about the tax that suggests it will have very little long-term effect.
Robert Teitelman: Johnson and Boone channel Yeltsin on the banks 2010
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CAVEATS The study did not differentiate between specific statins or dosages, nor did it determine if the drugs might have any longer-term effect.
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The problem is the game was fixed, the rules made up as we went along with no regard to the long-term effect.
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Speaking as a marketing advertising professional, I don't know how the McCain camp could know if this campaign will have any long-term effect.
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"Their environmental impact may have potentially a more long-term effect."
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So we're not talking about the immediate pleasure that we might get in a sexual affair; we're talking about the long-term effect.
Introduction to Buddhist Sexual Ethics: Having Sex with Someone Else's Partner 2009
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A gradual replacement of Heritiera with Excoecaria, therefore, is a likely long-term effect.
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So we're not talking about the immediate pleasure that we might get in a sexual affair; we're talking about the long-term effect.
Introduction to Buddhist Sexual Ethics: Having Sex with Someone Else's Partner 2009
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