Thousands of dollars had been pledged when the earthquake happened but that money doesn't seem to have been used for rebuilding".
Of the $255 million the Red Cross received for Haiti relief and recovery efforts in the month after the quake, more than $32 million was pledged when people texted "Haiti" to 90999 to donate $10.
For investors who are not aware the stock is pledged, the risk is greatest when an executive is forced to sell a significant position, as the chief executive of Chesapeake Energy was forced to do recently, adding to the downward pressure on the stock, Mr. Silverman said.
At a time when Al Qaeda is pledged to attack us at home, the Bush administration has taken its eye off the ball by concentrating its attention, as well as vital economic and human resources, on Iraq.
When a receivable is pledged, the borrower retains the risk that the person or firm that owes the receivable will not pay; this risk is typically passed on to the lender when factoring is involved.
They also would add little to the federal deficit at a time when Mr. Obama is pledging to reduce it.
It is quite another to back that same president when he is pledging to target beloved tax loopholes with the Buffett Rule.
Samantha Stosur is pledging to "fight fire with fire" when her Wimbledon hopes go on the line against explosive German Sabine Lisicki on Wednesday.
After a rousing show of unity at a donors' conference in March, when Haiti was pledged $5.5 billion of aid, relations between the government and donors and charities have become increasingly strained.
Returning to France in 1802, after ten years of terror and war, he saw only the corpse of a revolution: When faith was pledged to new-born Liberty AA homeless sound of joy was in the sky: From hour to hour the antiquated Earth Beat like the heart of Man: songs, garlands, mirth, Banners, and happy faces, far and nigh!
