"We're not going to sacrifice the long-term efforts we have under way to deal with the short-term crisis."

Lowering standards to meet a short-term crisis would be counterproductive.

"We believe the world has not fundamentally changed but that this is a short-term crisis," he added.

They have a short-term financial crisis, and they're just asking for permission to get out of it.

The short-term crisis is about jobs; tax reform can do little to help here.

But even if such short-term financial crises could be overcome, the Government's ability to put a long-term strategy into effect is in doubt.

The attacks created a genuine, but perhaps short-term crisis, for the industry.

In 1983, the founders thought they were responding to a short-term crisis.

Still, resolving the short-term crisis had come to seem paramount.

Some others sulk for about 20 minutes - a very short-term crisis.