Making a promise to yourself is much more effective than setting a goal.
But with a DB pension the employer is making a promise that becomes more valuable with pay and experience.
Key among them is making a promise to consumers and making sure you deliver, at the very least, on the simple things.
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On 2 June he won a no confidence vote in the Diet (parliament), only by making a promise to step down at a future date.
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Instead, he put out a plan that is all candy and no vegetables, making a promise of a 25 percent rate without doing any of the hard work on the tax base.
This claim displays the sad obliviousness of a well-intended, but apparently befuddled man making a very hollow promise.
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Specifically, the troika is looking into whether Greece is making progress on a promise to reduce substantially the size of its civil service.
Although no single device will always satisfy everybody, these new products go a long way toward making the promise of wireless computing a reality.
Officially, Ethiopia is making good on a promise to quit, signed at peace talks in Djibouti last month between Somalia's impotent transitional government and moderate Islamists.
Let's hope he's not forced into making another apology for a promise he can't keep.
And it has the promise of making such a big difference in the overall health of everybody, from children to seniors.
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Real promise lay in making cheap custom chips, not a better microprocessor.
Making a grounded assessment requires us to understand who is making the promise, what action they are promising, and whether they are sincere and competent to fulfill their promise.
Where the promise of smarter decision-making was often more of a hope than a reality two years ago, today, a majority of businesses are finding real, measurable strategic value in big data.
The first was the Pittsburgh Promise, a program created to revitalize the city by making higher education accessible to all public school students regardless of income or need.
The consulting business probably won't be making much money, and could run at a deficit, but the ultimate promise of getting more customers to use Sprint mobile networks is likely worth the cost.
Saban quickly threw out all the old programming, making an exception only for Robertson's 700 Club. (A promise to retain that religious show was part of the sale agreement.) But the new slate of shows didn't draw the audience or the advertising volume Saban and Fox had hoped for.
What they promise is open and free learning and a new way of making some good in the world.
But his reputation for honesty in the supervisor's job, and his promise of more open decision-making, won him support from a broader range of voters who suspected that too many favours were being swapped behind closed doors between the Brown administration and its friends in business.
This means that gold marketers are making the same promise of being able to deliver the same chunk of gold to a lot of different people at the same time.
The Alliance begins life with a promise to support a 17% flat federal income tax, while making some concessions to the centre, such as accepting Canada's official bilingualism (which Reform disliked).
We decreased stress by making sure that we always kept our promise to provide leads and all the other things a sales rep needs to do his job.
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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