But that was a small price to pay for a new overall commitment to news gathering, much of it incurred at huge financial loss, as advertising temporarily went into hiding.
As he prepares to leave his post at the end of June, de Boer — widely admired for his diplomatic skills and commitment to blunting the gathering threat of global warming — says he is not discouraged by the slow pace of talks to reduce emissions.
And even as American television viewers migrate to the Internet to get their news, if they get it at all, the evening news — whether on NBC or ABC or CBS — remains a bellwether of the viability of a network news operation, and of its commitment to serious news gathering.
But in its latest annual financial filings made public just two weeks ago, Chesapeake noted for the first time that it had $36 billion worth of what it called "off-balance-sheet arrangements," including $17 billion of long-term commitments to buy gathering services.
The commitment to joining the Florida gathering was apparent in Mr. Natenshon's C-3.
(Policy-wise, his premiership increasingly resembles a high-speed version of his predecessor's: equivocation, then a gathering commitment to public-service reform, macho confrontation with public-sector unions, and so on).
The 10 in the network were chosen based on track records of long-term research (up to 100 years in one case), existing partnerships with nongovernmental organizations, and on a commitment to support standardized data-gathering for 30 to 50 years.
But it is gathering pace.A commitment to launch REDD, with "substantial finance", was the only obvious success of last year's Copenhagen summit on climate change.
Team building, specifically among the top leadership team and at the unit or department level, served as a vehicle for gathering ideas, consolidating commitment to plans and reinforcing mutual respect.
On Nailah's cell-phone recordings, which document the past four years of her daughter's life, several different nurses can be heard congratulating Jahi for gathering the strength and commitment to move a foot or a finger.
