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Someone promised another place, then flaked out.
But someone promised me heaven after that.
So this was another time when someone promised a lot.
"Someone promised something and didn't deliver who was all mouth and no trousers.
Skepticism abounded, too, as it wasn't long ago that someone promised to transform transportation and instead gave us the Segway, which turned out to be really useful for, well, not much.
If someone promised Martoma ten million dollars not to testify about securities fraud, what would stop him from renegotiating on the spot, by demanding twenty million not to testify about obstruction of justice on top of securities fraud?
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Because we can't have it both ways, if someone promises you higher returns, you need to ask the question: What's the corresponding risk?
When someone promises that you can get out of a serious debt problem by borrowing more, they are lying or they have been lied to.
Wyeth, GlaxoSmithKline and other major vaccine suppliers have said they are willing to tailor their vaccines for poor countries and build factories to manufacture millions more doses, as long as someone promises beforehand to buy them at a price that allows the suppliers to break even.
What is most frustrating is that I've complained on Twitter and all that has achieved is a long chain of direct messages, where someone promises they will deliver the next day, but then I hear nothing more for a couple of days.
When someone promises me a kingdom, I get suspicious".
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