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- noun The
concentration onobtaining immediate profit at theexpense oflong term security .
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Examples
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Evy Hambro , joint chief investment officer of BlackRock's resources investment team, criticizes stock-market investors for what he calls "short-termism" and for writing off the entire mining sector.
Mining Companies Take the Long View Robb M. Stewart 2011
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The prime minister is not expected to reveal an array of new policies, but is setting out his views before announcements next Tuesday by the business secretary, Vince Cable, on executive pay and proposals to address City short-termism.
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But it's even more unrealistic to accept pervasive short-termism as a given when it is so antithetical to being strategic.
Jay Pelosky: Bi-Sectoralism V: Beyond Short-Termism Jay Pelosky 2012
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The crisis certainly could not have occurred without certain private firms (e.g., Citigroup, UBS, Merrill Lynch) engaging in excessive corporate short-termism (or perhaps "greed") along the same lines as Fannie and Freddie.
Mark J. Perry and Robert Dell: How Government Failure Caused the Great Recession Mark J. Perry 2011
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A bi-partisan, bi-sectoral approach that gets beyond short-termism is critical to reestablishing our internal well being as a society and our external position as a nation.
Jay Pelosky: Bi-Sectoralism V: Beyond Short-Termism Jay Pelosky 2012
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Ms. Raw said "short-termism" is obscuring robust fundamentals for copper, which faces a shortfall in global production this year as a number of mines operate below capacity.
BlackRock Sees Opportunities in Mining Stocks Robb M. Stewart 2011
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Lib Dem backbenchers went further when contacted by the Guardian and accused their coalition partners of short-termism and kneejerk reactions.
Tories' reaction to riots 'bonkers', say Liberal Democrat MPs 2011
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The reputation of private equity and hedge fund groups for short-termism and rapacity can make it difficult for stakeholders to swallow the idea of their taking larger positions in US energy infrastructure ownership.
Peter Gardett: Shadow Banks Go Long Energy Projects Peter Gardett 2011
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Technology will remain necessary to global adaptation and transformation, but citizens will become better able to counterbalance corporate short-termism through the explosion in their ability to generate, access and harness information for change.
Goodbye to focus on MDGs and poverty, hello to global goods and wellbeing | Lawrence Haddad 2011
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Genuinely good governance moves us beyond our innate human tendencies to self-interest and short-termism to identify a coherent idea of enlightened public interest.
If we can organise the Olympics, why can't we get the basics right? | Matthew Taylor 2011
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