In Tamil Nadu Jayaram Jayalalitha, a former actress, wowed voters with promises of free rice and other goodies.
Promises of free vacation tickets or maybe a free TV if you sit in on a time-share sales pitch are common.
Lots of looking at products on Websites and analyzing promises of free shipping and the likelihood that items would arrive on time.
The unrest in Egypt has settled, but the future there is not yet clear, as the military takes control on promises of free elections.
Schools, clinics and other public services had been withered by corruption, and Mr Sankoh's promises of free health care, free education and a fair distribution of diamond revenues sounded appealing.
For its part, Eos appears to be overhauling its sales effort. (The company denies this.) One quirky promotion promises a free Apple video iPod for purchasing a round-trip flight by August 31.
There are sure to be scams between now and launch for both PS4 and the new Xbox that will attempt to lure people with promises of free consoles, or even just guaranteed consoles.
The driver told police that Sno Cone Joe owners Joshua Malatino and Amanda Scott followed his truck, playing their music at high volume and trying to lure away customers with promises of free ice cream.
To add to the frustrations of President Andres Pastrana, who has bet his mandate on peace, a second guerrilla group backed away from earlier promises to free all the hostages it has seized in recent mass kidnappings.
Faced with Mr Toledo's challenge, he made many expensive promises, from free building-plots to higher pensions.
Net, which promises a commercial free, real-time socially driven information stream with an open API for developers.
The survey was sponsored by the Abbott Laboratories, Medisense Products, the makers of the Soft-Sense meter, also launched on World Diabetes Day, which promises normally pain-free testing.
The idea is that once a customer is brought in the door with promises of commission-free trades, the company will have a stable source of income for years.
He tends to tell people what they want to hear, with promises of more jobs, free housing and lower taxes.
The internet allows professionals to make their data available for analysis by anyone, and some are happy to take advantage of the free labour this promises.
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And it promises to be pain-free.
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Expand Medicaid today and pocket the 100% funding Washington is dangling in front of them for a time, but include so-called "sunset" clauses that would rescind the new coverage if Medicaid proves too costly or if the feds renege on their free-money promises.
US, that oral promises made by military recruiters offering free military medical care to service enlistees and their dependents for life in exchange for twenty years of military service, were invalid.
The database Transparency Labs, meanwhile, is launching a free web-based service that promises to translate every contract issued by America's largest corporations and financial institutions into readable, ninth-grade-level text.
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It could be a landmark moment, as Manning promises to be the single most exciting player to ever hit free agency.
One of the promises made to entice people into service was the lifetime guarantee of free medical care.
Although he has declared his broad support for Mr Fujimori's free-market economic policies, he has also made populist promises to raise wages.
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It guarantees Poles access to free basic health care and education until the age of 18 and promises to promote employment.
It plans to ship more than 800, 000 products free of cost to help promote its e-commerce channel that promises to be a major contributor in the future.
Known as a champion of free-market economics and liberal democracy, Mr Akufo-Addo promises to kick-start an "industrial revolution", extend coverage by Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme and fight corruption.
Looking to shorten the insight cycle, the company promises most customers will begin to see value from using the software before the 30-day free trial ends.
And when the campaign promises are long forgotten, voters will likely remember that if they played their searches right, there was free ice cream, coffee and chicken to be had on Election Day.
He made a string of lavish promises to cut child-care costs, guarantee kindergarten places, extend maternity and paternity leave and even hand out free fruit to schoolchildren.
It's been nearly a year since DVD Jon made some noise about doubleTwist by promising to "liberate" iTunes purchases from their DRM, and while that's no longer particularly relevant in light of Apple's decision to go DRM-free, we're actually really digging this newly refocused public beta of the doubleTwist app, which promises to seamlessly manage all your devices from a single interface.
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