"Typically, smaller tenants don't want to make any commitments more than a year in advance," Mr. Swerdlow said.
LONDON — How could a group of nations that came together with such promise and commitment more than half a century ago, prepared to surrender their currencies and much of their political sovereignty to strengthen integration, now find that their union has been brought to the brink by the small state of Greece, economically and geographically one-fiftieth of Europe?
"I was unable to get any of them to make a commitment more than to not speak out against our technology," Poole recalls.
"The most pleasing thing for us was the endeavour, the commitment more than matching that of Ross County.
In sum, the Columbia Commitment is more than a commitment to the University.
Now known as the Documentary Group, the production company — whose principals include five other longtime colleagues of Mr. Jennings — has secured commitments for more than a half dozen other projects across a range of platforms.
But diversity like other cultural commitments is more than a policy to hire candidates from different backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, and sexual preferences.
To date, no other car maker has risked a firm commitment to anything more than a modest assembly plant.
Hollywood has a long history of social activism and like it or not celebrities with passion, commitment, and more than half a brain cell can snatch the public's attention and whether it's George Clooney on fracking; Sean Penn on the horrors of post-earthquake Haiti, or Jessica Lange on the human damage wrought by farm foreclosures, people do listen.
During a pre-match meeting between the competing teams, FC Barcelona President Joan Laporta and Manchester United President David Gill shook hands and spoke of their commitment to more than just a football win.
