Until Mr. Gingrich's PAC started advertising heavily this week, the major political presence on Florida's airwaves was Mitt Romney, who has committed close to $7 million to ads.
In Manchester, 56 offences occurred on or near Piccadilly Gardens in December, while in Liverpool 52 offences were committed close to the popular nightspot of Concert Square.
Broad and Bill Gates, through their respective foundations, recently committed close to sixty million dollars to create a campaign, "ED in '08," to make the national education crisis a priority in the Presidential race.
In fact, with Europe and the International Monetary Fund having committed close to $1 trillion to the crisis since it flared early last year, the extent to which the new European fund is seen as credible will go a long way toward determining whether the markets will accept Europe's broader strategy in addressing its economic ills.
But they are vitally important to keep in mind when the mayor has committed close to £1bn to realizing his cycling plans and such a handsome sum could have been spent instead on, say, the night bus service, which would immediately benefit some of London's poorest workers.
PCV has already committed close to a million dollars to small businesses in the Bay Area.
UNITAID has committed close to US$3000 million since 2006 to programs intended to bridge gaps in care, most notably in treating pediatric tuberculosis and multidrug- resistant strains of the disease.
The country's endless wars, foreign occupations and targeted drone killings have stretched our military thin, robbed us of resources needed to shore up our infrastructure, and left us vulnerable to blowback, and yet the U.S. government has committed close to $6 trillion to advance wars in the Middle East and prop up the military industrial complex.
Since 2006, CCNSW has committed close to $100 million in new funding through the external research program to researchers across Australia.
