For their part, companies would be cautious about committing large amounts of investment dollars until confident of stability -- political and contractual.
The United States and Britain, which have been the largest donors of food and other humanitarian aid to Zimbabwe, have said they will wait and see whether Mr. Mugabe is genuinely willing to share power before committing large amounts of money to help rebuild the country's shattered economy.
It becomes evident that Michael, glum and unprepossessing as he appears, is operating in the premier league of police corruption, hiding in plain sight as a "good copper" while cutting deals with gangsters and committing large amounts of his own money to complicated international drug-trafficking.
John D. Wren, the chief executive of Omnicom, which is based in New York, has said it is unwise for ad agencies to commit large amounts of shareholders' money to deals that turn them into technology hopefuls, while Internet companies like Google and Facebook retain the real expertise.
Companies are not confident enough about their prospects to commit large amounts of precious cash to share repurchases.
So, to bring on inexperienced investigators to replace retiring ones, research universities have to commit large amounts of their own money.
Perhaps more significantly, the DeVoses have bankrolled numerous independent political spending groups that commit large amounts of money towards TV ads, mailers and other forms of support for Senate candidates.
Before committing large amounts of resources toward development of complex models from in vitro data for use in setting human exposure standards, we urge careful thought be given to how such models will be used and the uncertainties inherent in those models.
As soon as the mark committed a large amount of money, sometimes as much as $250,000, the operators disappeared.
