Our commitment to balance and our fundamental belief in its importance allows us to always be assessing how we are doing and supporting one another.
An immediate commitment to balance the budget might be a rather more austere economic diet than equity investors would desire, even if bond investors took cheer.
The latest FDA black eye highlights an internal battle inside an agency struggling to balance a commitment to science with an intensely politicized decision-making process.
Almost any city or town would be bankrupt if it put on its balance sheet the commitment to provide health care for retired employees.
And a Tory promise to restore national control over social and employment legislation has been replaced by a more nuanced commitment to "examine the balance of the EU's existing competences" and, in particular, to "work to limit" the application of the working time directive.
The trouble is, if he's wrong - if the spare capacity isn't there - then this policy risks making the situation worse, by pushing up inflation over the medium term, and weakening confidence in the government's commitment to cut public borrowing and re-balance the economy.
Figuring out how to balance a demanding career and a commitment to family represents a difficult if not impossible balancing act for almost everybody, and I suspect that in many intense workplace environments, efforts to prioritize family time often elicit just the sort of suspicious critique you see in the Politico piece.
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This is a major commitment to how I think we can begin to right the balance again.
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Another intriguing finding: The survey asked respondents about organizational commitment to various issues, including diversity, work-life balance, sustainability and corporate responsibility and volunteerism.
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The accepted practice in bank accounting is to set up significant loan-loss reserves only when the commitment is availed of and the arrangement becomes an on-balance-sheet loan.
Most importantly, we must ensure physician remain advocates for the individual patients in their care, and not ask doctors to balance care of an individual patient with a broader commitment to preserving resources for society.
At the other are those who side with the IMF, which last week prescribed a course of fiscal retrenchment for the world, softened with a commitment by central banks to extended easy monetary policy and perhaps even more expansion of their balance-sheets.
So even if the size of the EFSF is capped, the impression may well be created that French and German taxpayers have made an uncapped commitment to prop up Italy and Spain - which would infect the perceived strength of the French and German balance sheets.
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