But "leaving no child behind" requires longer-term investments in women and children.

Silver Lake's strategy is to make longer-term investments, taking a five-year perspective, of $250 million or so in each company.

The early return of capital from condo sales helps to offset the longer-term investment that a hotel requires.

Argentines also have many times that amount in longer-term investments abroad.

They certainly are less prone to make productive, longer-term investments in new plants, equipment, product development and research.

Many of them had turned to longer-term investments to raise their incomes, since rates there had not fallen as much.

We're able to make longer-term investments at very attractive prices because we don't have to have every stock performing all the time.

Endowments are a longer-term investment often taken out to run alongside a mortgage.

If they have the money to do it, it may be the right move as a longer-term investment.

Beyond those, the Cuban economy presents a long list of needs waiting to be filled by longer-term investments in areas from housing to manufacturing.