Today's lead details how since 1990, the District has spent more than $170 million on salaries and long-term medical expenses on city workers who file disability claims.

Now, however, online investors can achieve reasonable diversification - say, a dozen stocks - at less long-term expense than if they bought mutual funds.

This is an example of saving little money at great long-term expense.

However, the long-term expense involved in frequent maintenance outweighed any savings.

The group called the amendment "a short-term fiscal gain for the state at the long-term expense of students, consumers and the public."

Hospitals have also faced heavy costs, though it is not easy to separate short- from long-term expenses.

Often, short-term productivity gains are purchased at the long-term expense of higher levels of worker stress, lower product quality and poor customer service.

Nothing is a bigger long-term expense than Medicare, which will bring the debate right back to health care.

Many short-term economies were at the long-term expense of both efficiency and effectiveness.

"True enough, but he'd probably rather take the shortterm loss of a shutdown than the long-term expense of giving us higher wages."