Several parents described their poor experience with caregivers who promised a photograph that they finally never gave: this unkept pledge reinforced the absence for mothers and created a feeling of impotence in fathers: " I was a little disappointed because a midwife had told me a photo would be taken, and that never happened.
"If Al tells me something I want to hear, I might go for him," said Mr. Reynolds, one of many bone-deep Democrats in this riverbank town who remain furious over an unkept environmental pledge that Mr. Gore, the ultimate environmental politician, was heard to make eight years ago, when the Clinton-Gore team was fresh and its campaign packed with promise.
It was a small mistake, to be sure, but it has been that sort of year for Bicentennial planners and promoters across the country, a frustrating blend of unkept promises, unfulfilled pledges, unappreciated projects, unfunded budgets and unforeseen problems that have tarnished the image of the celebration.
Appointments slide by unkept.
There are unkept government promises.
The unkept promises are corrosive".
A promise to see a couples counsellor whizzed by, unkept.
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Those promises, and a promise to free political prisoners, have largely been unkept.
Here are tales of upheaval and heartbreak, of violence and death, of promises unkept.
