Then you put doctors and nurses in charge of systems that are under constant short-term financial pressures.

The deal immediately raises the debt ceiling, which takes away some short-term pressures.

"The short-term pressure ought to be off the market next Friday."

And, as additional mines come on line, there may be further short-term pressure downward.

The Labour party's policies would re-ignite inflation and exacerbate short-term pressures.

"It relieves the short-term pressure and gives us time to prepare."

Porsche refuses to publish its financial results quarterly, as American companies must, because executives worry about being held hostage to short-term pressures.

As a result, companies that resist short-term pressure and spend heavily on training are likely to remain few.

In other words, investors will loosen the straitjacket they have placed on that manager, by reducing the short-term pressure to beat an index.

Many of these projects were derailed by the short-term pressure of rising construction costs.