Long-term commitment

Even if geological conditions for the presence of hydrocarbons are promising, host country political and fiscal conditions must also be favourable for the commercial success of exploration ventures. Distance to potential markets, existence of an infrastructure, and availability of a skilled workforce are further parameters which need to be evaluated before a long term commitment can be made. 

At an early stage of the development of the Inspection Management approach it was recognised that the currently employed commercial arrangements would not be appropriate for the long term commitments envisaged (ref 3). At that time contracts were largely time and materials or reimbursable, which experience had proven in many circumstances to be adversarial by there very nature At its crudest, the objective of the... 

In some cases, companies with frequent or challenging toller service requirements may take on long term programs and commitments to develop one or more toll firms with skills, knowledge, and equipment appropriate for the processes in question. If successful, these long-term commitments can achieve a safe, highly efficient, symbiotic relationship. 

While the ISO 9001 requirement applies only to quality records, ISO/TS 16949 extends retention times for many other documents because you cannot demonstrate you have or had operations under control without specifications, plans, procedures, etc. You may also need to retain tools, jigs, fixtures, test software - in fact anything that is needed to repair or reproduce equipment in order to honor your long-term commitments. 

Governmental R D efforts and long-term commitments are complemented by three major international co-operation initiatives. 

Liabilities are current or long-term commitments to pay off loans, notes, or bonds in the future or current promises to pay others for goods or services ordered on account. This latter type of quantity is called an account payable because it is an amount that the company expects to pay as bills come due in the future. 

Participants emphasized that both sectors, public and private, need each other as long-term stable partners, and it is vitally important for the government to be able to make long-term commitments to hydrogen if the private sector is going to make large capital investments in it. The only way to overcome the hurdles to hydrogen production and deployment (discussed in the next chapter) is for the public and private sectors to cooperate in a way they never have before. 

Last but by no means least, the availability and use of trained presentation personnel during inspections is key. Those who present to an inspector should be permanent employees otherwise there may be an impression of dependence on quality from temporary staff whose loyalty and long-term commitment to a pharmaceutical or healthcare company could be questioned. Presenters... 

Monitoring programmes are expensive, require long-term commitment to provide adequate data sets and should be funded with funds distinct from those allocated for basic scientific research. 

The gorgeous brownstone houses on the side streets along 5th and 7th Avenues in Brooklyn have been rediscovered by professionals and others looking to make a long-term commitment to the borough. Quite a few new restaurants have also popped up in the neighborhood catering to health-conscious locals. 

To promote the long-term commitment from management, the TRM system should provide a competitive advantage. This advantage will come from the ability to quickly identify and react to changes in ... 

Another study that lies in the realm of physics is the exploration of elemental nucleosynthesis in the big bang, stars, and supernovae. Astrophysics is an observational, rather than an experimental, science and is therefore relegated to a detailed long-term commitment by physics graduates. 

The debate, however, continues on the difference between occasional consulting on the one hand, and long-term commitments involving substantial financial interest on the other. It was argued that the latter was "already stifling free exchange of information and ideas on the Davis campus."... 

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