Accrual measures add a longer-term focus to the federal government's financial picture by providing more information on longer-term consequences of today's policy decisions and operations.

There will, however, be longer-term consequences which flow from those dramatic weeks, which are still working themselves out and which may prove more serious.

The longer-term consequences of the use of auctions are disturbing to those interested in sustaining longterm home values.

Thus the reunions represent a chance for the staff to follow up on longer-term consequences of the babies' early medical trauma.

But there would be longer-term consequences for bond investors.

That could be of much longer-term consequence than Balcor's bad loans.

We have perhaps yet to appreciate the longer-term consequences of these increasingly widespread human links.

The thinking was that they would encourage legislators to think about the longer-term consequences of spending proposals and therefore act more responsibly.

Conventional economic analyses of job impacts emphasize longer-term consequences, describing impacts broadly.

We are being forced to face the facts, and we have not even been able to assess all the longer-term consequences.