"If you can make peace with the state at that price, maybe it was a good short-term decision," he said.

He's making good short-term decisions, and risking the long run.

Economists have gained significant understanding about the long-term impacts of short-term decisions.

The political system is paying the price for the short-term decision to appeal to fear and conflict over consensus.

Their short-term decision was to advance $8.5 million so that operations could continue until the end of this week.

"It is very important not to fall into the pitfall of short-term emotionally driven decisions."

We as a country are making short-term decisions that will hurt our children in the long term.

"They don't want to be stampeded into taking short-term decisions that may have long-term consequences," he said.

There are matters affecting us where short-term decisions could be taken.

That would've been perhaps an easier short-term decision for the board to have made.