The Olympics promise to be a picture-perfect showcase for China's digital mobile TV service.
Nevertheless, better saving habits by consumers are welcome and promise to be beneficial in the future.
Shareholders, unlike bondholders, receive no legal promise to be repaid in cash at a certain time.
But at the social-security department, they hope that this rash promise can be quietly forgotten.
And the 2013 celebrations, which take place from 2 to 12 February, promise to be every bit as grand.
Happily for curators and impresarios, 2011 offers new anniversaries that promise to be just as inspiring.
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Some are prosaic but nonetheless promise to be time-consuming, like corporate-tax reform and a big highway-spending package.
Mr Papandreou's promise to be a helpful opposition leader should ease Mr Karamanlis's first few months in office.
Yet the benefits also promise to be huge: power savings, reduced investment in electricity generation and lower carbon emissions.
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Hedge-fund promoters promise to be leveraged, to be hedged, to be "market neutral, " to be short, to be long.
Preferred stock is a permanent promise to be paying out into the future.
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For the components makers that can adapt, the gains promise to be enormous.
Chapman thinks that advantage extends to Internet appliances, which promise to be a bigger market for Transmeta than ultralight PCs.
Hedge fund promoters promise to be leveraged, to be hedged, to be "market neutral, " to be short, to be long.
The announcement, from the Church's House of Bishops, would allow gay clergy to become bishops if they promise to be celibate.
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There, the battles promise to be nasty and the solutions sometimes intractable.
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There is some way to go, however, before laboratory promise can be translated into a treatment that can be offered to patients.
The constitutional issues of a ban promise to be even more controversial.
Politicians promise low-skilled workers a higher wage, but that promise cannot be kept if employers cannot profit from retaining those workers or hiring similar workers.
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"LEDs promise to be the way forward for the whole sector, " explained James Russill, EST's technical development manager, in an earlier interview with the BBC.
On current trends, however, the continental European countries that will in January join the planned single currency promise to be among the world's fastest-growing in 1999.
With no new hardware or software involved for the merchant, the deal could pay rich dividends for the company as the costs involved promise to be low.
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Some GOP activists in the state are trying to raise money for what they promise will be a campaign to unseat some of the state high court's justices.
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Last but not least, there are clear signs that the administration is fulfilling its campaign promise to be more selective about where to engage its troops and its attention.
That too was an issue he found himself seriously vulnerable on following a sharp rise in muggings and robberies, clashing badly with his oft-repeated promise to be "tough on crime".
But he owes it too to his own promise to be a conciliator, a man who will pull together the diverse threads of American society into a more coherent, united whole.
Might his promise soon be put to the test?
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Two events qualified based partly on where they are happening: The Summer Olympic Games are always a huge event, but they promise to be even more memorable with Beijing, China, as host.
But his promise to be tough on crime has chimed with a panic over a rash of murders, including a shoot-out on Toronto's main shopping street after Christmas that killed a 15-year-old girl.
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