What punishments there are in the US for these firms – usually some version of a "We really, really promise never to do it again" deferred prosecution agreement, accompanied by superficially large fines – are always paid by the shareholder, not the actual wrongdoer.
President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that he never really meant to promise that he would bring jobs back that Carrier, the heating and cooling company, had promised this year to ship to Mexico.
Sarah Shahi, who plays mediator Kate Reed, never really fulfilled her promise in the role.
But, although I found the result endlessly fascinating, the mass of information and the diversity of styles means the promised debate never really matures.
It never really delivers on the promise of its opening scene.
"But the promise has never really been fulfilled.
Although it is never really specified who made this promise, or when.
Instead, young voters should swallow hard and reconcile with their old flame Obama, because Romney's just like any other rebound relationship: full of sweet talk and empty promises that never really work out.
For all the promise of LTAs, they've never really quite gelled as a fully mature technology.
"The promise of discovery and sharing new, good music was never really fulfilled by other services out there," says Tim. "It's an unfulfilled promise that nobody ever really executed on".
