Now, we promised wed give you a hint of how compounding makes it desirable to pay sooner rather than later.
And we're not bad, but we're not doing as well as we promised under Kyoto and other commitments.
And already, 95 percent of working Americans are seeing a tax cut that we promised would show up in their paychecks.
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We did what we promised, and a great industrial giant is reborn.
"We promised a worldwide launch and we delivered, " he said.
And we promised - and I repeated that promise here in this programme some years ago - that we would get extra investment and reform into the National Health Service.
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The last thing I want them doing is blaming us for not returning a call or fixing a problem that we promised to fix by the end of the day.
"We promised we would prioritize these fans when we released the contingency tickets, which is exactly what we are doing, " London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe said in a press release.
There is of course a good amount of technical stuff behind that (see Deinterlacing and telecine) but we promised John and everyone else that we will keep it nice and easy.
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What we try to do is manage our schedules to ensure that we are delivering what we promised, and I think that having done so consistently has led to a high degree of client retention.
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"At the end of last year we let our customers down and although we already had a compensation scheme for delays, we promised all our season ticket holders something extra for the hassle we'd caused, " a spokesman said.
Simply put, we have promised ourselves benefits we cannot afford.
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It does not give the American people the real debate that we were promised about our policy in Iraq and how we should move forward.
That we have promised retaliation for decades and then always drawn back, hoping that we could get through if we simply did not provoke the enemy, is appeasement, and it must be quite clear by now even to those who perpetually appease that appeasement simply does not work.
"We were promised affordable, ubiquitous broadband wireless for everyone, " he told a crowd of engineers.
We were promised a set of speeches mapping out the Chancellor's personal political philosophy.
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We were promised that these tax cuts would lead to faster job growth.
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"As long as we keep to the measures we have promised, there is no need for new measures, " Stournaras said.
We know we are promised equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes.
With the European fiscal situation looking like the emerging markets 30 years ago, we were promised that the world was coming to an end.
We were promised that the emergency services were being moved out.
"Originally we were promised a monetary union, without political or economic union, " says Sampo Terho, an MEP from a Eurosceptic Finnish party, the True Finns.
Eleven years ago we were promised a paramedic on every ambulance.
We were promised by the developers to have 16 different endings.
It's unclear how the technology is being implemented, but we were promised it wasn't just video tricks and was indeed a video of a lab demo.
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We were promised an improvement in job growth prospects, reductions in costs, no taxes on the middle class, and even scolded that we could keep our trusted doctors.
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"We were promised a strong Olympic legacy but the Government has chosen not to adopt the target of one million more people participating in sport by 2013, " Hodge said.
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