Architects are encouraging residents to commit to paper their ideas in an effort to trigger changes.

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How do you commit that to paper?

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In his paper he recommended that the Fed commit to keeping policy easy until the economy reaches a particular target, such as nominal GDP (ie, output unadjusted for inflation) returning to its pre-recession path.

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However, this paper and a few others are still so rash as to commit words to newsprint.

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Europe's new Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard recently published a paper that set out the arguments why the EU should commit itself to a unilateral cut of 30% by 2020.

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