It has also extended its commitment to cap household electricity and gas prices by two months to October, although it said it will look to implement more price reductions if it can.
NBC Universal extended its commitment to maintain a presence in New York City under an agreement approved yesterday by the city's Industrial Development Agency.
After broadcasting the major prep races ahead of Saturday's run for the roses, the network is extending its commitment to horse racing with 14½ hours of planned Derby coverage.
"With the hubris that marks empires over the millennia, Washington has increased its troops in Afghanistan to 100,000, expanded the war into Pakistan, and extended its commitment to 2014 and beyond, courting disasters large and small in this guerrilla-infested, nuclear-armed graveyard of empires," Alfred McCoy wrote in The Nation last December.
With the hubris that marks empires over the millennia, Washington has increased its troops in Afghanistan to 100,000, expanded the war into Pakistan, and extended its commitment to 2014 and beyond, courting disasters large and small in this guerrilla-infested, nuclear-armed graveyard of empires.
In 1999, the World Bank further extended its commitment to stakeholder accountability and transparency by creating the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman Office CAOO) [ 1].
(However, soon afterward, the military quietly won NATO's agreement to extend its military commitment in Afghanistan for another four years, through the end end of 2014).
The business plan also makes clear that the state Legislature will have to extend its financial commitments to the middle of the century, although even the extension will not eliminate the risk of insufficient funding to complete the system.
