They say they don't trust politicians to keep their promises, so why bother.
In response, firms will need to be even more transparent in their dealings with customers, who will punish them severely if they fail to keep their promises.
Investors will be closely watching next month's meeting in Manila to see if members can actually keep their promises and separate aging industries from their protective security blankets.
We are urgently calling on governments and the leaders of civil society, in Haiti and elsewhere, to combine their efforts, to assume their responsibilities and, especially, to keep their promises.
When necessary, though, he has defended the waiting-list pledge, arguing that politicians ought to keep their promises, and that waiting times fall in parallel with the length of the lists.
Pupils can then use the power of their words by sending all their work to the Prime Minister to remind him and other world leaders to keep their promises on education.
After promising not to extradite their leaders for drug crimes, Mr Uribe ended up doing so when they failed to co-operate (Mr Santos may be tempted to do the same if the FARC fail to keep their promises).
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When Google was fined by the US Federal Trade Commission in 2012, chairman Jon Leibowitz said that all companies must "keep their privacy promises to customers".
Still, "all companies must abide by FTC orders against them and keep their privacy promises to consumers, or they will end up paying many times what it would have cost to comply in the first place, " FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said.
This is the trouble with the present pay-as-you-go system: it relies on future governments to keep their predecessors' promises.
Although this is a step in the right direction, we all need to keep the pressure on Schwarzenegger and other politicians to follow through on their promises and to address the attacks on education all across the country, not just in California.
Despite promises that people who like their plans will be able to keep them, the administration's own regulators acknowledge that 51 percent of workers will discover changes in their health coverage as a result of the health care bill.
Nada on the president's promises about how ObamaCare would lower premiums and lower the deficit while allowing people to keep their existing coverage (all untrue).
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