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Pledges
A pledge is an oath. It may also refer to:
- a toast during the act of drinking in honor of someone
- a warrant or assurance, now used especially in fundraising for charitable purposes
- Pledge of Allegiance, used in the United States
- The "Teetotal Pledge" or "The Pledge", of abstinence from alcohol, taken by many Catholics in the 19th and 20th centuries, in a movement started by Theobald Mathew (temperance reformer) in Ireland in 1838.
- Singapore National Pledge
- Pledge or New Member, sometimes used to describe a new member of a fraternity or sorority
- Pledge (law), a bailment of personal property as a security for a debt
- An item to be sold to a pawnbroker
- The Pledge, a thriller by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- The Pledge (film), based on the above book
- A brand of household cleaning products, made by S. C. Johnson & Son
- The Pledge Algorithm, for computerised Maze solving
"Pledges of Centrism":
The Chicago Tribune runs a story under the headline, "Roberts' record on high court defies '05 pledges of centrism":...
Obama Pledges To End Don't Ask Don't Tell
As everyone has heard by now, President Obama has pledged to end Don't Ask Don't Tell with respect top the military. A NY Times article discussing this issue is available here...
PLEDGES SICKENED BY RAW MEAT
Its not often an outbreak results in some instant justice. But when 11 students at the University of Nevada Reno were diagnosed with campylobacter, a food-borne illness, the investigation quickly turned to the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity...
McConnell Pledges Fight
A good GOP Senate source reports today that Minority Leader Mitch McConnell addressed the entire Republican Conference (I think it was yesteray; maybe this morning; am unclear on the timing) about the judge-fight issue...
Obama pledges "new era of openness" on first day
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090121/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_executive_payIn an attempt to deliver on pledges of a transparent government, Obama said he would change the way the federal government interprets the Freedom of Information Act...
Italian pro-life leader pledges ban on RU-486
CWNews reports: “An Italian pro-life campaigner has vowed that if he becomes the country’s health minister, he will block the sale of the abortion pill RU-486 ...
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