• So Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president Annapolis was intended to strengthen against the rejectionists of Hamas, returns to Ramallah with little to show except the promise of a year of bi-weekly meetings with Ehud Olmert.

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  • Nothing like a television star (and the promise of autographs to show to mum back home) to get hotel staff into a frenzy!

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  • Here, though, there's a sense of randomness and too-muchness that characterizes the whole production, including the hideous creatures that fulfill the promise of a horror show.

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  • "The Creative Destruction of Medicine" an allusion to economist Joseph Schumpeter's description of "creative destruction" as an engine of business innovation is a venture capitalist's delight, describing dozens of medical technologies that show great promise.

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  • Saban quickly threw out all the old programming, making an exception only for Robertson's 700 Club. (A promise to retain that religious show was part of the sale agreement.) But the new slate of shows didn't draw the audience or the advertising volume Saban and Fox had hoped for.

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  • Google Wallet is the first mobile payments service to really show promise in adding capabilities like the above on top of a base payment platform by bringing their ecosystem of local services like Google Places and Offers into the fold.

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  • The families had formerly turned down an offer to appear on the Judge Mathis show, but now it looks like the the promise of a one-day showdown and the lack of attorneys on Judge Judy was just too good to ignore, since they've both tentatively agreed to appear on the show.

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  • The bottom rung of Hollywood's ladder--reality stars, beauty-pageant queens--will often show at a party for the free bottle service and, of course, the promise of paparazzi.

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  • Video games are just a small part of the gigantic trade show that takes place every January in Las Vegas, but there's always the promise of some good smack talk when Sony and Microsoft are both in the house.

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  • Meanwhile, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise, but e-books continue to gain popularity and show tremendous promise.

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  • He can even promise stable rates for the next three years in pursuit of this effort and thereby show how Fed policy is really quite transparent.

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  • Perhaps her subsequent show of independent-mindedness is one reason the Government seems to have cooled on its promise in the Coalition Agreement, to find ways to encourage more primaries?

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  • Makers of fixed-wing aircraft are also looking at diesel engines, in small planes at least, where they show promise as a serious alternative to standard piston engines, which run on a high-octane form of petrol.

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  • Regardless of their differences in hardware approach, Google Wallet and Isis each are beginning to show promise in delivering something for consumers and merchants alike that shifts the focus from whether users are swiping, waving or tapping when checking out to the services delivered on top of the payment itself.

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  • "I'm sitting on a mountain of deal flow, " he says, pointing to a box full of rejected business plans from some of the 2, 800 entrepreneurs who haven't made it onto the program but still show promise.

    FORBES: You bet your life

  • The show never made it to the air, but they secured a promise from Comcast to take a first look at any of their next ideas.

    FORBES: Attention Deficit Television

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