New rules imposed by the government means that such under-the-counter deals, which now have a name of their own – enforcement undertakings – are likely to become more common.
They sent the Mayor a letter of grievance and began organizing ceremonies of their own — interfaith undertakings that included, but did not rely on the hospitality of, their Abrahamic counterparts.
It was replaced with a commitment to "a thriving private sector and high-quality public services, where those undertakings essential to the common good are either owned by the public or accountable to them".
On one recent Saturday morning Donald Trump visited the construction site of his housing development, one of the few undertakings he owns 100% and for which he is putting up all the money.
We asked some of the magazine's contributors and editors to tell us about their own ill-fated undertakings.
"What, if anything, have these undertakings achieved?" he wrote.
They, too, have had undertakings given and withdrawn – nothing in writing, "just between us", all deniable.
Looking at railway undertakings in my own country: they have to make use of the land they own.
The help will come from the fact that each company now has a major, stable and interested stockholder whose chairman and vice chairman have, through Berkshire's own investments, indirectly committed a very large amount of their own money to these undertakings".
Yet, as I'll stress till I'm blue in the face (and if you don't believe me, come join me in a dialogue with kids) I've found repeatedly that not only do the insights of our youngest enhance my own practical and scholarly undertakings at every turn, they often are quite wiser than those of the 'elites' who are so condescending to them in practice.
