PARIS — The Dutch defense ministry said on Tuesday that it had selected the F-35 fighter jet from Lockheed Martin to replace its aging fleet of F-16s, bringing an end to years of uncertainty over the Netherlands' commitment to a program that has been plagued by technical delays and mounting development costs.
The company arrived after a ferocious battle and in a climate of political uncertainty about the degree of commitment to the war.
The uncertainty over the commitment of hardware-makers was underscored in April, when Nike fired the majority of the team responsible for its device, called FuelBand, and cancelled a new version of the product scheduled for release later this year.
Moreover, uncertainty decreases with rising levels of commitment, and the resulting sense of security contributes to well-being as well (Soons et al. 2009).
The uncertainty of their on-call commitments also contributed to the male GPs' unhappiness.
Important barriers were the complexity of the intervention, the lack of quality data, inadequate information technology support, the lack of commitment procedures and the uncertainty about sustainable funding.
To accommodate the uncertainty of demand response, alternative unit commitment methods robust to the uncertainty of the demand response require investigation.
MasterCard's chief executive, Robert W. Selander, said in a separate statement that the settlement eliminated "the uncertainty, time commitment, and expense of a prolonged court case" and kept the company's balance sheet intact.
An audience feels that uncertainty, that missing commitment, and this crowd stayed mostly subdued, hearing none of the pumped-up volume it expected from the recordings nor the vocal glamour of a Three Tenors show.
A deadline "would precipitate a year of dangerous uncertainty and wavering commitment to our allies," said Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, a leading foe of the provision and sponsor of the amendment to kill it.
Is it simply a lack of commitment?
