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.
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.
U.S. Secretary of State Clinton pressed Afghan coalition allies to make concrete commitments to funding Afghan security forces over the next decade.
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.
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".
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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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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"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.
Participants also called on countries to make specific and measurable commitments to increase or improve financing.
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.
And as luck would have it, the disclosure comes on the day that the bosses of the UK's biggest banks troop in to see the Chancellor, to discuss what commitments they can make to increase their lending to small businesses and decrease their bonus payouts to bankers.
But if they have the will to stop the fighting, the monitors can help them implement the commitments they make to each other and the international community.
As we celebrate Mother's Day, I challenge all men to think about the commitments they can make to build up our societies by lifting up women, our very own mothers, wives and daughters.
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.
So, gang, you are all on the hook. (Laughter.) We know where to find you -- (applause) -- and not only to fulfill these commitments, but to make sure that as we go forward our military families are being heard across the government.
Companies usually make serious commitments regarding relocation to certain locales because of manufacturing or distribution advantages.
Women don't face the same pressures to marry and therefore don't need to make commitments as quickly.
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.
"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.
But that is why it is so important for us to make sure that we are meeting our commitments to them not just individually as parents but also as a society.
It also aims to make known the political commitments with a forward looking vision, in view to ensure a Quality Education for All in different regions and countries.
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This implies such ideas as currency boards, which restrict a government's ability to vary monetary policy, and international agreements which make it difficult to retreat from commitments to more open trade.
Failure to make good on previous lending commitments, however, could subject the banks to lawsuits.
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.
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