21.   But Aaron of Montgomery is more bearish for the near term.

22.   Buchbinder says that the work will effectively preserve the building for the near term.

23.   But controlling inflation, so important for growth, causes pain and unemployment in the near term.

24.   But even though the stock is relatively cheap, analysts see little danger of Sovereign being acquired in the near term.

25.   But for the near term, the outlook is good.

26.   But Henley also said the firm expects its fortunes to improve in the near term.

27.   But environmentalists say that in the near term, the cost of building a new dam would outweigh any possible savings in power generation.

28.   But eventually the telephone companies too lost faith in two-way digital TV technology, at least in the near term.

29.   But in the near term, as the Hollywood experience shows, Linux is gaining at the expense of proprietary versions of Unix.

30.   But in the near term, his crystal ball is cloudy.