In aggregate, stations raised $32 million in the last pledge period in December, said John Wilson, PBS's chief programmer.
The fund's last pledge round, in October 2010, raised $11.7 billion, well short of the $13 billion "austerity budget" it said it needed as a minimum to continue programs already started.
(On my Twitter stream, that last pledge sparked some skepticism. One person sent me a link to an OpenSecrets.org page showing that three of Clinton's top four campaign donors, in the course of her career, are Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase).
Platts, an authoritative energy publication, estimated that OPEC's production dropped by 880,000 barrels a day in November, or half what the cartel last pledged.
Nearly every wave of immigrants in this country's history competed with one another to be more "American" than the last, pledging their allegiance to success and the idea of "whiteness", vying for their place among the chosen.
After the ceremony, he explained his own tearful response to his daughter's pledge of lasting love.
That pledge lasted all of three days, when Miliband was forced to clarify, at the launch of Labour's business manifesto on Monday, that the 5 per cent profit limit would not apply to drugs companies who sell drugs to the NHS and whose profits are already regulated.
The rail fare "freeze" pledge lasts an entire parliament rather than Labour's solitary year, although for a "freeze" read an increase in line with RPI - a rate that has exceeded inflation as normally defined, as well as pay rises, during the last parliament.
Does it lay the foundation for lasting prosperity?" Mr. Obama renewed his pledge to prevent waste from creeping into projects that are paid for through the economic plan.
Most likely represented by a two-athlete contingent, Iraq will be allowed to compete at the upcoming Beijing Games after the International Olympic Committee received a last-minute pledge that the country would properly restructure its national Olympic organization.
