We are looking to jumpstart the program, ... This is not a short-term fix.

I'm here to let you know that we are here for the long term.

These issues are not going to be resolved overnight. There is no short-term quick fix.

Looking ahead, the CEOs are cautiously optimistic but not as optimistic about the short-term outlook as they were at the end of 2004.

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.