Article: 'The Promise' a complex beauty Fantasy thinks big, with battles, yak stampede, romance.(Spotlight)

Article: Yak stampede tramples `Lions'; Cruise, Redford and ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  November 8, 2007 ;     643 words ...Byline: Colin Covert; Staff Writer Although "Lions for Lambs" is handsomely produced and features three of Hollywood's biggest stars (Tom Cruise, Robert Redford and Meryl Streep), it talks to death issues that cry out to be dramatized, while pushing tension toward melodrama. Cruise plays U.S. Sen.

Article: Political promises--what do they mean?(Politics)
Quadrant;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... naive approach that political promises should be absolutely binding ... the difficulties of keeping, promises. Above all, it argues that ... appropriate sanctions for "promise-breaking' are political ... must make judgments about why promises were not kept, and must use ...

Article: Promise keeping: do we keep our promises?(Nursing ...
MedSurg Nursing;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... perhaps, but not a promise easily kept ... rhetoric, specific promises were made. How ... gaps between promises and performance ... the public. Promise making, promise ... reliability or promise keeping. "When we make promises or other commitments ...

Article: Promise us the world ... and we'll just ask for more; ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  January 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... but here are a few promises that could or should ... Tony Dungy will promise he's not leaving ... will continue to promise not to make any promises. - Wolves executive ... found his Rose Bowl promises too uninspiring, will promise to take "Gopher ...

Article: PROMISES, PROMISES.(Brief Article)
Good Housekeeping;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... defenses are down, don't promise anything more than a "maybe." Outer promises often come disguised ... is the best kind of promise keeper--not only ... What long-overdue promises to yourself are you ... make good on them. A promise is a solemn, sacred ...

Article: Promises not made to be broken.(News)
Post (South Africa);  September 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... themselves by making promises that have very thin ... most people who make promises do honour them. Even ... raisers, a person may promise to donate more than ... granted. But that "a promise is made to be broken ... public figure makes promises to public benefit and ...

Article: Promises not to compete sometimes unenforceable.
Electronic Business;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... the duration of the promise, as well as to its ... enforce only reasonable promises not to compete take ... approaches when the promise fails the reasonableness ... competition, short of a promise not to compete. These include promises to protect confidential ...