And we support USTR's negotiation of Free Trade Agreements and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that create binding trade and investment competition commitments.
In these games, trustees made non-binding promises of investment-contingent returns, then investors decided whether to invest, and finally trustees decided how much to return.
And the pledges only run until 2019: Joel Hills (@ITVJoel) Pfizer says (5-year) commitments to UK are "tangible, legally-binding and represent significant investment in the economy".
There is not, nor has there ever been, a "legally binding" government guarantee of investments in banks.
Pfizer insists that those pledges - including to keep 20% of its R&D staff are - "tangible, legally-binding and represent significant investment in the economy, skilled workforce and scientific knowledge-base of the UK".
"Declining demography, under the heading of "no children, no immigrants" is historically a sign of a declining civilisation". Pfizer says (5-year) commitments to UK are "tangible, legally-binding and represent significant investment in the economy".
In an unusual contractual agreement that gives the authority until May 27 to exercise a one-year option to make a binding offer, it will be investment bankers, not KeySpan and the authority, who set the final figure.
Having a "real option" means having the possibility, for a certain period, to choose either for or against making an investment decision, without binding oneself up front.
These protesters want the city to require more community investment — and under more binding terms — from the tech companies that benefit from San Francisco's tax breaks.
Read admits there would be fewer scientists in the combined company than at present but insists Pfizer will honour its commitments to UK investment, which are legally binding.
