short-term
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By buffering those short-term fluctuations, the kidney might help maintain a more consistent individual chemical profile in urine.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The Fed is likely to hike once more this year, bringing its short-term policy rate up to a 4% to 4.25% range, but then hold that level through 2027, Rasco said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 20, 2026
Ahead of these events, the group is asking that employers provide union and living wage jobs, funding for 50,000 units of housing for working families, a moratorium on short-term rentals and protections for immigrant workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Friday’s BOJ decision came in the same week that Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh raised the U.S. short-term rate by one-quarter point, the first increase since 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Yet the compression brings a compensating benefit: long-term comparisons of regions yield insights that cannot be won from short-term studies of single societies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
