Women don't face the same pressures to marry and therefore don't need to make commitments as quickly.
Potential investors are hanging back and mining companies evidently think it is not yet the moment to make commitments to Congo.
Nearly half of pension funds and other large investors allocating to real estate expect to make commitments to opportunity funds in the next 12 months, Preqin said.
Inaugural addresses can fail even when the ideas are clear, even when the writing is fine, if the addresses make commitments that the ensuing presidency cannot deliver.
"If the market has indeed turned the corner, we will have ample time to make commitments...because the average bull market since 1900 has lasted in the neighborhood of two years, " says Sullivan.
"If we start with the actions next week, which we intend to, to move from a conceptual discussion to implementation phase, we'll start to make commitments that then become very difficult to come out of, " he said.
In the last few years, banks rushed to make commitments to big buyout funds to get access to the lending and acquisition advisory business presented by the buyout funds' underlying portfolio companies, a key part of their earnings stream during the credit boom.
Companies usually make serious commitments regarding relocation to certain locales because of manufacturing or distribution advantages.
At this stage, we can make no commitments to reverse any of that, on spending or on tax.
Corporations, nonprofits, and educational institutions make substantial commitments to specific, achievable global efforts.
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So why do banks make these commitments on such a massive scale?
U.S. Secretary of State Clinton pressed Afghan coalition allies to make concrete commitments to funding Afghan security forces over the next decade.
Ordinance workers do not make lifetime commitments like nuns and monks and do not keep a common purse or share things in common.
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Under the Kyoto protocol of the UN climate convention, all developed countries save America must make binding commitments to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions.
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When for his advice, Jeffords told Barkley not to make any commitments on which party he may vote with, a spokesman for Jeffords told CNN.
Kofi Annan is attending a meeting of European foreign ministers in Brussels, where a number of countries are expected to make firm commitments to the U.N. force.
YouTube is ready to entice viewers to make longer commitments.
Moving forward, the Department will encourage even more businesses to make hard commitments to hire veterans and we will actively share the "best practices" we find in veteran hiring.
Once companies have clarified where their responsibilities lie, as discussed in my earlier post, the next step is to make credible commitments to do something about them and then publicly fulfill those pledges.
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Speaking on board a US military plane en route to the two-day Nato meeting, Mr Gates said the new US administration was "prepared... to make additional commitments to Afghanistan, but there clearly will be expectations that the allies must do more as well".
Younger generations have concluded, accurately, that their options do not contract after schooling, that they can take time to develop their own identities and make important life commitments, and that it may make sense to wait.
How can a service company make ten year commitments without any control over its labor costs?
In those days, the IMF twisted their arms to make tough fiscal commitments they could not keep.
Yet Rosen has noticed that technology can make agendas, commitments and relationships more disposable and follow-through less likely.
Over the next two days, we need to build on this momentum and to make sure our commitments are aggressively implemented so we can continue to move.
Participants also called on countries to make specific and measurable commitments to increase or improve financing.
At ASUS, one of the key commitments we make to our customers is a relentless drive to deliver the best user experience.
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Preqin reports that 35% of endowment respondents are reducing the rate of commitments they make to private equity and 22% are exercising greater caution.
The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us.
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