Not lasting long

Usage examples of short-term.

Again, she had assessed Occula as a girl of exceptional style, with far more than the kind of short-term basting appeal of a beauty like Meris, and she did not mean to let her attraction burn up and blaze out like a fire-festival bonfire.

Samples of tissue from his bronchia and lungs showed a massive short-term buildup of carbon and other by-products of combustion.

But it would be a crass mistake to dismiss him as merely a lightweight, recklessly exploiting the financial crisis for short-term advantage.

Chia was part of some cultural-exchange program, short-term homestay, something to do with her school.

William James, for example, views introspection as a retrospection of a mental event held in short-term memory.

The bank also contained television, telephoto and teletype connections back to Fat Boy for printout of verbal and visual data, together with local storage banks for short-term hold and cross-reference.

On the sixth day he had driven an unloaded sled from the synthesizer complex under Level Eighteen to the short-term storage facility on Thirty-one, using only the service tunnels and without having to request a navigational fix, in just twenty-four standard minutes without hitting anyone or anythingat least, not hard enough for a written report to be necessary.

Strongly opposed to the existing policy of short-term enlistments, Adams declared himself adamantly in favor of a regular army.

Most of the latter research, after a number of failures, was aimed at short-term chron jumps.

Habituation and dishabituation, which thus fulfill the criteria for the definitions of learning given at the beginning of Chapter 6, can be regarded as very basic and simple forms of short-term memory, adaptive mechanisms which economize on unnecessary responses and hence help to avoid fatigue.

On the other hand, if it was a variation of posttraumatic stress, then many types of therapy, including short-term behavioral technique sould effect a cure.

Padrugoi reemployed such technicians for short-term work since they were already familiar with the Station.

As a result, many of the critical decisions of 1991--decisions that would establish the course of the entire postwar confrontation with Iraq--were made with these short-term considerations in mind.

The Pragmatic Approach: Advantages and Disadvantages The Pragmatic Approach proceeds from the fundamental assumption that building a new, stable Iraq is going to be a long and costly process--if it can succeed at all--and therefore that the United States should be looking for a practical short-term solution, rather than a Wilsonian long-term one.

Estimates based on recent episodes of male unrest, six, ten, and thirteen decades ago, lead savants at the Institute for Sociological Trends to suggest that this somewhat more severe interlude may not pass in time to prevent short-term economic loss to many of our subscribers.