Though American companies like Westinghouse and General Electric have sold nuclear reactors around the world, the United States government has made no commitment to assume responsibility for the long-term storage of spent fuel and its wastes.
After discussions about the safety of the cars with Google officials, and the company's commitment to assume liability for them, Kirkland officials concluded that the risk posed by allowing them on city streets was low, though a test car in California did cause an accident in February when it veered into the path of a public bus.
PEOPLE saving for their pensions and other long-term commitments tend to assume they should put a lot of their money in the stockmarket.
"They always wanted to thank him for his commitment to preparing them to assume leading research positions in academia," recalls Dr. Rod Sharp, one of those graduate students who later rose to the position of Director of Research at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station.
What the F.D.A. needs is competent management, discipline in the ranks, more effective risk-benefit balancing, a commitment to permitting patients to assume more responsibility for the risk of medicines, and the banishment of politics from regulatory decisions and policy.
The International Monetary Fund cannot be expected to step in as a substitute for a stronger commitment by Europe which needs to assume the brunt of any losses on emergency loans, a senior US official said on Friday.
7 It is probably good for legislators and other code-creators to notice people and understand what their goals and ways of pursuing them are; to assume a commitment to see to people's needs equitably and protect their ways of life; and to be mindful of people's integrity and of values like autonomy, dignity, happiness, and humanity.
What I can claim categorically is that it would be good for us academic bioethicists to notice our colleagues and understand what their goals and ways of pursuing them are; to assume a commitment to state our own views strongly and to criticize those of others fairly; and to be mindful of our own academic and personal integrity as well as the integrity of our rivals.
Japan startled the conference last week by announcing that it would not accept any new targets under the Kyoto Protocol, and Russia, Canada and some other parties to the protocol have also signaled a reluctance to assume new commitments.
Given that low oxygen tensions maintain undifferentiated states of embryonic, hematopoietic, mesenchymal, and neural stem cell phenotypes and modulate proliferation and cell-fate commitment [ 28], it is reasonable to assume that a much lower oxygen tension than that of ambient air in some specific environments of the cochlea may be more suitable for stem or progenitor cell populations to reside.
These results indicated that students who gave credence to human evolution also tended to assume weaker religious commitments.
