The approach now is to put some cards on the table in advance, trying to build a flexible treaty based on known commitments, which should be more politically viable.
Rumours of a new studio album co-written with Chambers had surfaced in early 2007, along with known commitments required by Williams to complete his EMI contract.
But when it came to long-term commitments (you know, commitments with strings attached), I couldn't think about them.
StickK has different tools, known as "commitment devices," to incentivize its users, and Orszag uses one that makes a credit-card donation to an "anti-charity" — some cause that he finds loathsome — if he doesn't reach his goal.
One such tool, known as commitment devices, has been shown to induce people to become more future-oriented.
A selection of the best places to tie the knot, from the giddy heights of romance to the places known for commitment.
Two-hybrid screens are sometimes referred to as functional screens, since interacting proteins might give a functional hint if at least one of the partners has a known functional commitment in a well understood signaling pathway.
Odysseus's ship mast was arguably the first known "pre-commitment device".
What I hadn't realized was that Centre knows their commitment, and they have excellent resources to fulfill that commitment.
"We were kids and didn't know the commitment we were making," Mr. Woods said.
"But in our house, you know, the commitment level was very high.
