We should encourage people to make long-term commitments to each other and build families, so as to foster strong, stable communities and promote personal responsibility".
On the one hand, "Working with or for family can be a source of strength, because you have trust, shared values and long-term commitments to each other," Mr. McCann says.
But in a statement on Friday, she said: "In speaking with North Dakotans from every corner of our great state, and much personal reflection, I have concluded the federal government should no longer discriminate against people who want to make lifelong, loving commitments to each other or interfere in personal, private, and intimate relationships.
"In speaking with North Dakotans from every corner of our great state, and much personal reflection, I have concluded the federal government should no longer discriminate against people who want to make lifelong, loving commitments to each other or interfere in personal, private, and intimate relationships," Ms. Heitkamp said in a statement on her Web site.
The essence of being on a team is that you make commitments to each other.
The plan is to invest $10 million to $20 million per year on an ongoing basis in four-to-seven portfolio companies, with average commitments to each company in a portfolio topping out at approximately $3 million.
When the number of members of a group that would benefit from collective action is small enough, we might expect cooperation that results from extensive interaction, mutual monitoring, and even commitments to each other that trump or block narrowly self-interested actions.
So deciding when two partners' commitments to each other began isn't always easy.
The lack of some essential interpersonal skills such as the ability to communicate, to negotiate differences and to maintain commitments to each other than can generate these defects.
Then Stephen branches out into bromance fantasyland, referring to "our long term commitments to each other; what that would mean in the future, for our enduring friendship and relationship".
At Morning Star, for example, the entire organization is built on two principles: 1) No one has power or coercion over anyone else, and 2) People must keep their commitments to each other.
