All they have done is put a deposit down often as not not even that just a promise to buy if the price of oil remains high enough.

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Similarly, some sincere sellers might even offer to refund the price of your report if what they promise is not supported by what a Looker sees.

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The conclusion is this: it is hard to imagine the required levels of growth or margins if Facebook does not become ubiquitous or cannot deliver on the promise of a superior sort of internet advertising.

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If not, you should reconsider your promise to do it all over again in a year!

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Now, if you promise not to tell anybody, I will let you in on a little secret: I was not always the very best student that I could be when I was in high school, and certainly not when I was in middle school.

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So I would just suggest to this caucus, if anybody is searching for a lesson from Massachusetts, I promise you the answer is not to do nothing.

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President Obama's promise to "extend a hand" if Iran "unclenches its fist" may not be enough to break the logjam.

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So it may be profitable for the department store to promise not to hold sales more than, say, twice a year, if at all.

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The higher the hope value, the more urgent the need for a company to turn its sizzle into steak, because if at some point promise is not delivered, the hope value in the company's stock price will dissipate.

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Stournaras also reiterated a promise to austerity-weary Greeks that, if all goes to plan, they would not have to endure any new cuts.

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The Fed has just given the elite a huge wad of cash and a promise that it will put up more cash, if necessary and yet, stocks did not go up much.

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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.

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