The pledge, called forward guidance, is supposed to help fuel the economic recovery by creating certainty among borrowers about the affordability of debt in the near term.
The pledge, called a Developer's Certificate of Origin, is a response to concerns among corporate users of Linux that procedures for adding new code to the evolving operating system have been too informal and lacking in documentation.
It was a long, somewhat rambling pledge called "Responsibility for Austria -- A Future in the Heart of Europe," promising adherence to the spiritual and moral values of Europe, recognizing charters on peace and monetary union, accepting responsibility for Nazism, and even suggesting that compensation might be paid to forced laborers.
So successful that Ms. Maxwell created an ocean pledge, called, "I love the Ocean" expanding on the original idea of ocean citizenship.
Tillerson signed the pledge, called the Fairbanks Declaration, Wednesday night during the 10th meeting of the Arctic Council, a network of eight nations with territory in the region, including Russia, Canada and the Nordic countries.
When Karen Armstrong launched the movement a number of years ago, she invited individuals to sign a pledge called the Charter for Compassion, and invited cities to become "compassionate cities".
The pledge calls for even lower taxes — while offering almost no detail on spending cuts.
The pledge calls for elected officials to oppose "any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates".
* Which? is calling for consumers to support the campaign by signing a pledge calling for supermarkets to use clear, simple price labelling at which.co.uk/unitpricing.
(He also made a series of fascinating self-portraits, or "one-image movies" as Mr. Pledge calls them, that we will feature on Lens tomorrow).
