This means that Mexico would get the money it would need immediately but not the longer-term benefit of lower debt.

A second explanation is that there could be a longer-term benefit that researchers didn't have enough time to observe.

In commercial and personal life, short-term temptations can trump longer-term benefits, too.

There were also longer-term benefits because riders regularly returned later to revisit the towns and areas, often bringing others with them.

This huge accumulation of relatively low-yielding assets is the investment strategy of risk-averse bureaucrats, but it may bring longer-term benefits.

All those countries will have to tighten policy in the near-term even though there are longer-term benefits.

But Mr. Schweitzer sees longer-term benefits from the alliance with Nabisco.

Expanded education and training programs would also produce longer-term benefits.

The tendency to choose short-term rewards at the expense of longer-term benefits permeates many forms of psychopathology.

It has that potential longer-term therapeutic benefit.