That world is long gone.

The period of rapid progress is not in the distant past.

Nonetheless, much of the development policy community remains stuck in the distant past.

Stories purporting to uncover artifacts from time immemorial to reveal a forgotten and forbidden past.

When improvisation, resourcefulness, imagination are key, artists, at long last, take their place at the table, when strategies of action are in the process of being designed.

Set was associated with Naqada, so it is possible that the divine conflict dimly reflects an enmity between the cities in the distant past.

Stocks are risky, depressions can happen, and it is dangerous to extrapolate the past to the future.

And, while fiscal stimulus is called for in the short run, the long term outlook for Japan s public finances is deeply troublesome, owing to the huge debts run up in the past.

A constant amongst them all, however, is the sense of dislocation and often vulnerability, expressed in words and questions and requests for reassurances, in the tensing of shoulders and tight inhalations of breath as painful memories from the past both distant and recent are recalled.

WASHINGTON, DC Because information technology (IT) has so quickly transformed people s daily lives, we tend to forget how much things have changed from the not so distant past.

Look at the distant horizon!

Taking Hope in the Long View

So much for the long term.

Long range pollution

The ocean extends to the distant horizon.

This process does work in the long run.

Stocks and the Long Run

Colonialism, slavery, the splintering of Africa into small countries, and a long history of resource exploitation may be matters of the distant past to the perpetrators, but not so to those who suffered as a result.

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Out of sight, out of mind.

It is a policy for the long term.

Germany s World Cup performance was a brilliant demonstration of the importance of deep, long term reforms. In the early 2000s, German soccer was boring.

Whatever the scenario that ends the calm, today s age of low volatility will seem like a distant dream to most of us and a forgotten nightmare for ambitious financial traders.

So the long term could be long in coming.

The far side has more visible craters.

Convention on Long range Transboundary Air Pollution.

So, yes, government spending provides a short term boost, but there is a trade off with long run secular decline.

I suppose it's different when you think about it over the long term.

Peace must be made sustainable in the long term.

The Israeli disengagement will be judged over the long term.

Only then can the past truly be past.

Sean Carroll Distant time and the hint of a multiverse

We also must plan to change for the long term.

The most promising technology in the long term is solar power.

The Long Term view is becoming prevalent amongst investors.

Nonetheless, much of the development policy community remains stuck in the distant past. For example, policymakers insist on the importance of public private partnerships and argue that the private sector needs to learn to work with the public sector.

The 1929 crash just does not seem relevant to most people today, probably because we survived the 1987 and 2000 crashes with few ill effects, while 1929 seems not only the distant past, but another world.

When that happens, the long run future will be now.

In the long run, this is dangerous.

In the long run, more diversity is needed.

The long run damage could be devastating.

Chinese growth is set to slow over the longer run, as well.

What the world needs now are leaders who look to the long term future.

In the long term, the challenge is more vague, but deeper.

That is not a recipe for long term stability.