A twenty-four person task force recommended several reforms, including mandatory attendance at intensive education and social programs, an elimination of the word "pledging," and a reduction of "the new member intake process" from eight to four weeks.
Members of the center, Athletes' Performance, sign a 182-word pledge every year that they "will only use training techniques that are purely ethical".
The 31-word pledge to the American flag and republic was read in Arabic during Wednesday morning announcements at Pine Bush high school, located 65 miles (105km) north-west of New York City.
High on their list is that he broke his famous six-word pledge to the 1988 Republican Convention -- "Read my lips: No new taxes". If only he had held firm during negotiations with Congress in 1990, he'd be riding high today.
The vaguely worded pledge he issued Saturday to step aside appeared, a day later, to be just another feint.
On their way outside for a break, the students passed posters with the words "pledge to the Bible" and "pledge to the Christian flag".
On Tuesday, Representative Frank R. Wolf, a Republican from Virginia, took to the House floor for a rare excoriation of the antitax activist Grover G. Norquist and his strictly worded pledge, which has been signed by almost the entire Republican caucus as well as a few Democrats.
The company has delivered a carefully worded pledge: GM will develop a hydrogen-fuel-cell vehicle that could compete on cost with traditional vehicles-if it were to be built in high volumes-by 2010.
In the event it took no more than vaguely worded pledges for the CHP to cave in.
Less than five months ago, G-20 leaders in Toronto exchanged far friendlier words, pledging to work toward "shared objectives".
