On September 2nd the finance minister, Thanong Bhidaya, promised regularly to disclose the central bank's forward foreign-currency commitments—a statistic the bank had hitherto refused to release.
Focused on youth development, the Mountain Sky Guest Ranch Fund has made $2 million in commitments–a "pretty large percentage" of profits to area charities.
Christopher Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics, a consultancy, calls these commitments a "liquidity black hole".
"Making those commitments a reality is the next crucial task," she said.
His popularity grew when he starred in "The Commitments", a hit 1991 film about Dublin musicians.
Especially in the possible absence of binding commitments, a robust and independent system for reporting emission reductions (mitigation) is necessary.
The group pulled out for "family and personal commitments," a spokesman said, though there have been reports of poor ticket sales.
Goldman wrote off about $1 billion in residential mortgages and $1 billion in leveraged loan commitments, a number that neither surprised nor upset investors.
Sorkin cited other writing commitments – a second season of HBO's The Newsroom and a Steve Jobs biopic – that would leave him unable to finish the musical on time.
Sending children to college is one of the biggest financial commitments a family makes, yet historically, parents and students had no way to predict the cost before they applied.
A spokesman for Kirsten E. Gillibrand, whom Mr. Paterson appointed to the United States Senate, said she had two prior commitments: a fund-raising run for Haiti in Central Park and the annual Chinese New Year parade in Queens.
