(Policy-wise, his premiership increasingly resembles a high-speed version of his predecessor's: equivocation, then a gathering commitment to public-service reform, macho confrontation with public-sector unions, and so on).
But it is gathering pace.A commitment to launch REDD, with "substantial finance", was the only obvious success of last year's Copenhagen summit on climate change.
Team building, specifically among the top leadership team and at the unit or department level, served as a vehicle for gathering ideas, consolidating commitment to plans and reinforcing mutual respect.
And doctors say that for them, the new wave of cancer drugs is intensifying the conflict between their responsibility to their patients and their commitment to gathering scientific knowledge for generations of the critically ill.
On Nailah's cell-phone recordings, which document the past four years of her daughter's life, several different nurses can be heard congratulating Jahi for gathering the strength and commitment to move a foot or a finger.
Just be clear that you're only gathering information, and be sure to make no verbal commitments.
Such tasks are complex because the risk is high (significant financial commitment), and the large differences between brands or products require gathering a substantial amount of information prior to purchase.
A park in need would become a member park by gathering signatures from local residents, establishing its own conservancy group and receiving a city commitment, from the Parks Department and local council members, to maintain current government financing levels.
PHOTOS: Concerts by The Times The major commitment that Beats, like Spotify and the others, has yet to make is in gathering all the informational minutiae of music.
Leaders gathering for another G-20 summit next week in London must not only commit to avoid this path, they must flesh out their commitment with concrete proposals for concerted actions.
