So the World Bank would assume, in effect, the risk of Laos not honouring its contractual commitments.

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But Cleverly has contractual commitments ahead that could make that fight an impossibility.

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Many of the shops that have been opened will stay since there due to contractual commitments that cannot be broken.

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Contractual commitments become comedy in an environment of currency collapse.

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For these and other reasons (for example, sunk investment, concerns about legal liability for failure to honor contractual commitments, fears of mismanagement by Chinese partners currently running joint enterprises without benefit of the supervision of the involved Western companies, etc.), many businessmen in the United States and elsewhere are currently considering a speedy return to China.

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Family life, as Hoggart understood, thus provides a basis for a form of social responsibility that extends beyond contractual rights and obligations to a sense of shared moral and affective commitments.

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