It is feasible that increased levels of social interaction in remote areas may be associated with additional burdens (i.e. stress associated with leaving farm or work commitments, longer distances to travel etc).
In the Peace Corps, whose twenty-seven-month commitment is longer than that for most service organizations, volunteers often become ambivalent about traditional development work.
As Matt Ochsenshirt asked, does commitment no longer count except for the truly gifted one being sized up by a sycophantic sneaker company for the perfect commercial fit?
Labour's commitment to longer tenacies during which rent rises have an annual ceiling does absolutely nothing, she says, to tackle the affordability crisis that already exists.
For variety, or if you have trouble with commitment to longer works, keep a collection of short travel stories like "The Literary Traveler: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction" (Viking Press, 1994), edited by Larry Dark, or "The Oxford Book of Travel Stories" (Oxford University Press, 1997), edited by Patricia Craig.
While time spent exercising intensely is very short, training time commitment is longer as it will include warm-up, cool-down, and rest periods.
Reasons for refusal included being too busy (this project represented a significant time commitment), no longer working in the area, or working in a related area of less relevance to the project (e.g. brain imaging studies).
Instead, the leaders looked set to reiterate their commitment to longer-term structural measures like deepening Europe's 500 million-person single market to new areas like services and e-commerce.
Most field studies have been of short duration (<5 years) and localized (e.g., multiple stands in an area), hence we call for a greater commitment to longer-term research and monitoring replicated across landscapes.
Some firms, such as General Electric and Rockwell Automation, are revitalizing corporate R&D efforts with a commitment to longer-range thinking to accommodate what promises to be a radically different industrial future.
