Mr. Bush, they said, would also like his cabinet to include at least one Hispanic, blacks and women -- a desire heightened by the closeness of the election, the need to unite a divided country and his sustained campaign pledge to put a new face on the Republican Party.
All six mayoral candidates have pledged to sustain Mr. Giuliani's signature achievement, a historic reduction in crime, and, for many of them, a sure way to accentuate their interest in staying the course has been to discuss possibly retaining his police commissioner.
After the U.S. exited Iraq and Americans thought they had escaped the conflict, Washington has had to pledge sustained support to the Iraqi government.
Mr. Blair later broadcast an appeal on the Pashto- and Persian-language service of the BBC in which he pledged sustained Western aid for the reconstruction of Afghanistan and vowed not to "walk away" from the country, as the West did a decade ago.
The Moroccan monarch moved swiftly to establish a close partnership with him, pledging sustained support.
* G-20 members with sustained, significant external surpluses pledge to strengthen domestic sources of growth.
* G-20 members with sustained, significant external deficits pledge to undertake policies to support private savings and undertake fiscal consolidation while maintaining open markets and strengthening export sectors.
Those who did attend the Earth summit in Rio last week solemnly agreed to keep stoking the destructive fires: sixteen times in their text they pledged to pursue "sustained growth", the primary cause of the biosphere's losses.
And while two Delaware charitable foundations have pledged $800,000 to Specialisterne, Sonne estimates that it will take $1.36 million, and three years, for the business to become self-sustaining.
Donors have pledged $215 million.
