If a promise to pay someone money in the future isn't a debt, what is it?
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The bonds represent a promise to pay Social Security the money back if it is ever needed to pay promised benefits.
He made a respectable showing in the 2005 election, gaining notoriety with a promise to pay cash handouts from oil revenues to every citizen.
Before prospecting he is careful to get government permission to take samples, usually in exchange for a promise to pay royalties on any eventual commercial use.
"In other words, we're not actually handing over cash, it is a promise to pay, to back up the IMF's lending if things go wrong, " he said.
Transactions involving distance or, especially, time are not self-enforcing: a promise to pay next week for goods received this week is a risky contract for the seller.
No note was signed as a promise to pay back.
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Lord Ashcroft had "made a promise" to pay tax in the UK, she said, urging the Tories to clarify whether he had done so.
She fashioned her own compensation plan: In lieu of a paycheck, Tix would give her a written promise to pay her if and when venture financing came through.
These are policies which promise to pay out a supposedly fixed sum to the policy holder's inheritors when the customer eventually dies, with the payment coming from the investment proceeds of the person's monthly premiums.
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You put down money now in return for a promise from an insurer to pay you monthly sums beginning when and if you reach some greater age.
These were firms that barely stayed afloat in the boom and both creditors and employees were taking a punt on their promise to pay debts and generous health-care benefits.
The new deal would also include a review of AWE's pay system and a promise to address industrial relations issues.
He sees a tantalizing promise: generating revenue to pay his writers by mining material already available on his website, which offers essays on technology and the arts.
Forty of Sony's top executives, including Kazuo Hirai, the chief executive since last year, are to give up bonuses worth 30-50 per cent of their pay after they failed to keep a promise to return the division to profit.
When you use credit, you are borrowing money that you promise to pay back within a specified period of time.
It has enlisted the Greater Manchester Pension Fund to pay contractors, with a promise of a share of rent and profits when the homes are sold.
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Reverse mortgages, which hold great promise as a way for the frail elderly to pay for long-term care costs while living at home, are failing to do the job.
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Over time the refuge (if it lives up to its promise) would produce a nice piece of change for federal coffers, albeit not enough to pay for the hurricane cleanup.
Clean-tech executives were encouraged by commitments to improve energy efficiency made by India and China, as well as a promise by rich countries to funnel billions to poor ones to pay for green investments.
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Driving this hunt is the Democrats' promise to return to a more responsible form of budgeting known as pay as you go.
Because he will not accept a deal that has specific cuts in spending, specific cuts in entitlement programs that asks middle-class Americans, seniors, college students who need loans, families with disabled children to sacrifice, to pay a price, on the one hand, and the promise -- the vague promise, the unspecified promise -- of some magical revenue that will appear from wealthier Americans in the future.
When an individual, company or government has a good credit rating, we are saying that we trust they will keep their promise to pay off their debts in the future.
But the Obama administration, desperate to promise benefits that it knows it cannot pay for, has found a solution: making up budget numbers.
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When 5% of earners pay 60% of income taxes how fat a campaign check does it pay them to write to support tea-party politicians that promise no new taxes?
In some respects, the former GOP vice presidential candidate mimics the tactics of the 2012 campaign: Promise tax reform built around wildly ambitious but gauzy rate reductions without a word about how to pay for them.
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He accused Mr Osborne of "reneging on a promise to low paid workers" who he said were under the impression that they would be receiving a pay increase.
Usually, when you leave an investment bank, you sign a severance agreement in which the bank agrees to pay you some nominal amount, in exchange for your promise not to say anything bad about the bank in public.
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