Many business leaders agree that the short-term prospects are dim for attracting large numbers of high-tech workers.

How much the sale helps Qwest in the long run remains to be seen, though its short-term prospects appear brighter.

It would not be much of a chance, but staying in the dying engineering hull had even worse short-term prospects.

And even this does not rule out the short-term prospect of default.

The company's short-term and long-term prospects are mixed.

Investors were also hanging up on Vodafone amid concerns over its short-term prospects.

It cited difficult business conditions and questionable short-term prospects.

While oil traders were focused on short-term prospects, stock market investors looked to economic conditions and the outlook for corporate profits next year.

So what are the short-term prospects for the European sector?

But the expectation of growth, which has pushed the stock's value so high, has left analysts in disagreement about its short-term prospects.