Until last week, the word was that Mr. Bush's tax cut had to be passed immediately to give the economy a short-term boost.

"Mergers create, at best, a short-term boost in your profits but at an expensive long-term cost that's not an appropriate," he said.

Thanks to a quirk in accounting rules, rising business investment also gives a strong short-term boost to corporate profits.

Developing countries can then decide if the economic short-term boost from allowing themselves to be parasited by industry, is worth the devastating environmental and social costs.

Labour might get a short-term boost in the polls by resisting every cut.

Companies relied on aggressive cutbacks throughout the prosperous 1990's to give one more short-term boost to the bottom line.

Still, some real estate executives say the AirTrain may give a short-term boost to retail businesses.

The clean-up of the oil caused a short-term boost to the economy of Valdez.

That's why a glass of something sweet to drink can offer a short-term boost to memory, thinking processes, and mental ability.

"But in the short term, they need an intervention to provide a short-term boost to demand."