thing.

But he was always like, 'There is no way this is a long-term thing.

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So when these guys get hit, it's more of a sort of a short-term thing.

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And so he's bound and determined to do the longer-term thing.

CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2009 2009

Secondly, the reason they rolled it out now, just a few days before Denver, suggests this is not a long-term thing.

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MARTIN: Trust me, I'm with you in that label thing.

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But I think this is just going to be a temporary, short-term thing.

CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2009 2009

Secondly, the reason they rolled it out now, just a few days before Denver, suggests this is not a long-term thing.

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I could see using this if it were a short-term thing.

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Between sitting in at the torture meetings it just seems that selecting her would be the nil in the coffin on the bush's third term thing.

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Especially, I think, the kind I wrote in HT, where the women don't go into it looking for a long-term thing.

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