And companies like Pernod Ricard, which did not spend enough in online media to be ranked among the leaders in the first quarter last year, stepped up their commitments enough to join the top 10 this year.
By contrast, big law firms are slowly stepping up their commitment to free services, after 10 years of pulling back.
At the same time, it credited the F.B.I. and other federal intelligence and counterterrorism agencies with dramatically stepping up their commitment to stemming the flow of terrorist financing, an issue that attracted relatively little attention before the attacks.
Big multinational companies including G.E., Phillips, Intel, Honeywell and Bosch are stepping up their commitment in what some experts call "telehealth"; last month AT&T said it would offer a diabetes monitor accessible by phone to some of its 1.2 million employees, retirees and their dependents.
In its place was talk about the sort of stuff that Geldof once despised — debt-cancellation schemes and the need for "accountability and transparency" on the part of African governments — and, instead of fund-raising, a call for the leaders of the G-8 economies to step up their commitment to Africa.
In two hard-edged statements over the weekend, Mr. Brown signaled a renewed sense of impatience in the approach that Britain and the United States plan to take toward the governments in Kabul and Islamabad as the allies step up their commitment to the war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
His tone seemed milder than it had been over the weekend when, in two hard-edged statements, he signaled a renewed sense of impatience in the approach that Britain and the United States planned to take toward the governments in Kabul and Islamabad as the allies step up their commitment to the war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
All members of the CELF were brought into the Linux Foundation at the Silver level, but Panasonic has decided to step up their commitment to embedded Linux by raising their support to the Gold level.
These seven countries have a unique opportunity to step up their commitments and convince others to do the same.
Afghanistan will loom ever larger as the EU face greater US pressure to step up their commitments.
