"Ma'am, does that dress have pockets?" At the end, he drummed up $30,000 in a round of direct pledging.
Its exultant Saturday night show, in a field with the Berkshire mountains as a backdrop, began with "Wilco (The Song)," which opens its most recent album, and articulates a direct pledge to its audience: "Wilco/Wilco/Wilco will love you, baby".
But coal projects were still receiving U.S funding despite the earlier, vague guidance, and in President Obama's big climate speech in June 2013, he made a more direct pledge to stop funding fossil fuel projects abroad unless they came with carbon-capture technology.
Funding, you rightly point out, could have come faster, but more important still is that donors agree to direct their pledges to the reconstruction priorities identified by the I.H.R.C. Gabriel Verret Executive Director Interim Haiti Recovery Commission Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan.
This may come about by reviving "Obamist" diplomacy, based on enticing with direct dialogue, pledging not to interfere in internal affairs and accepting for a regional role to be played by Tehran's mullahs.
Northern Ireland has been plagued by firebombing and rioting, in direct violation of pledges by paramilitary groups to stop fighting.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today that a number of countries had privately pledged direct military support for any offensive against Iraq.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said a number of countries had privately pledged direct military support for any offensive against Iraq, just hours after Congressional leaders said that a vote would be held before the November election on whether to authorize President Bush to take whatever military action he deems necessary.
Clinton emphasized several policy pledges directed at Hispanics, including a promise to extend Obama's Daca and Dapa programs that grant legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants as well as a vow to push for comprehensive immigration reform to forge a pathway to citizenship for all 11 million undocumented people currently living in the shadows.
Fund-raisers such as direct mail and pledge drives can gobble up from 15% to 30% of a charity's annual budget.
