Translated into the human speak, it means that Apple and China mobile are now engaged in negotiations about order commitments, price, subsidy amounts and revenue sharing.
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The company said today its board has approved the launch of a new engine variant of its 737 aircraft, which has order commitments for 496 planes from five airlines.
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They wait years before declaring a major, date someone for years before getting married, favor stores with a guaranteed return policy (think Zappos), and hire employees on a temporary basis (or use probationary periods), all in order to avoid commitments that can be difficult, or nearly impossible, to un-do.
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We must begin the reform of these programs now in order to protect those commitments.
Mr Lewandowski said the increase was needed in order to meet spending commitments that have already been agreed.
But so far it has declined to say whether enforcing the court's order would violate its commitments under international law.
There is no point in starving a business and endangering a firm's balance-sheet in order to meet macho dividend commitments.
McCulloch called time on his Scotland career in September 2008 in order to focus on his club commitments.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting and his deputy Michael Clarke have already pulled out of the competition in order to focus on international cricket commitments.
So the social aspect of Insight Timer might very well function like stickk.com, adding social stakes in order to help us maintain our commitments to personal transformation.
Well after receiving a fresh infusion of cash from Google and Skype, the company is storming into the U.S. and Europe with a deal straight out of a domestic wireless carrier's playbook: give away or heavily subsidize the hardware in order to lock customers into long-term commitments.
In order to facilitate future assessments, members also recognised that policy commitments need to be as specific and concrete as possible, and need to substantively contribute towards the overall objective of strong, sustainable and balanced growth.
That usually means CFOs are accounting for losses and have to hold cash in order to guarantee regulators that they have enough to pay their retiree commitments three years from now.
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