During Daschle's six-and-a-half minute speech, in which he promised to prove himself as a fair leader to his GOP colleagues, only 18 Republicans were there to listen.

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Blair has announced a judicial inquiry into Kelly's death and promised he will give evidence himself.

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But often he did not invest the money as promised, instead spending it on himself or redistributing it among his irate clients.

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So he decided that he would take it on himself to offer tools that would actually work as promised for those beleaguered SAs.

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By late summer after Congress passed a welfare reform bill that Clinton promised to sign, Dole was so desperate to differentiate himself with the president he bet the farm on a dramatic tax-cutting proposal at odds with his longstanding track record of putting deficit reduction before tax reductions.

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At Cleveland Police he promised to deliver "citizen focused neighbourhood policing", even spending some time on the front line himself.

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Instead, a spokesman for the relevant British arts agency (sounding a bit like he was just coming out of a pub himself, and in a mood to take a flyer) promised to increase lottery funding for film by 60 percent by 2014.

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