If New York's government can stimulate a modest flow of seed capital, it would reap long-term rewards.

Virtually all the experts recommend an emphasis on long-term rewards for long-term success.

Reinforcement learning is concerned with how an agent ought to take actions in an environment so as to maximize some notion of long-term reward.

The optimal policy is obtained by optimizing the long-term reward.

This action is representative of a long-term reward, and it is competing with an action that will lead to immediate satisfaction.

Study after study, Kolata notes, has shown that for most fat people the long-term rewards of dieting are modest at best.

It would ensure that the tunnel was completed and would give the banks much more direct access to the project and its long-term rewards.

You either have a short-term reward or a long-term reward.

Gardeners are learning that once these stalwart plants have become established, they require relatively little attention for a long-term reward.

And what will happen to those who retire in the short or intermediate term, before they reap their blessed long-term reward?