Preservationists have started a fund to purchase the land, obtaining commitments of nearly $4 million.
So long as U.S. emissions grow unchecked, obtaining commitments to lower emissions from countries like China and India is next to impossible.
In quiet meetings over the past month, American defense and national security officials have been trying to forestall those departures, while obtaining commitments of increasing numbers of troops from NATO allies.
In November 2010, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, ruled that the plaintiffs were not eligible for overtime because their work — obtaining commitments from doctors to prescribe their companies' products when appropriate — was a form of salesmanship adapted to how prescription drugs are sold.
Leading private equity firms such as TPG, Blackstone and KKR are having trouble obtaining commitments to fund the deal.
When I spoke to him recently, he downplayed the Treasury's role and claimed that the profits were made essentially by obtaining commitments from major European banks that-for reasons never quite developed in 90 minutes of bafflegab-made it possible for the commitment-holders to rapidly double or quadruple their money.
When I spoke to him recently, he downplayed the Treasury's role and claimed that the profits were essentially made by obtaining commitments from major European banks that-for reasons never quite developed in 90 minutes of bafflegab-made it possible for the commitment-holders to rapidly double or quadruple their money.
On one of the most urgent issues, U.S. diplomats and military officials pressed ahead with talks aimed at winning Turkey's military assistance and obtaining commitments from Turks and Kurds that they would not fight each other.
Since the General Assembly's thirty-third session in 1978, the Ad Hoc Committee's efforts have been concentrated on convening a conference of the littoral and hinterland states of the Indian Ocean, as an essential step toward defining responses to various clauses in the Declaration, and determining the feasibility of obtaining commitments worthy of inclusion in an international agreement.
Unlike Ipso, which has obtained backing from about 90% of the newspaper and magazine industry, his initiative has not yet obtained commitment from any newspaper or magazine.
