Promises Promising is a device for obligating oneself. In a culture in which promising is available, people have a normative power that they would lack in the absence of this institution. By exercising this power—standardly through the utterance...

A man’s word is his honor. (Danish) A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. (Arabian) A promise is a debt. (Irish) A promise makes you a debtor. (Hungarian) A promise must be kept not merely in the letter, but in the spirit. (Roman) A thing...

A promise is a psychological contract indicating a transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use. A promise may...

Byline: John P. McManus The topical but almost inadvertent theme of this issue of American Demographics, at least on the surface, is promises. A promise - something somebody or some entity offers, good or bad - very often lies at the root...

When is developer Lloyd Moore going to quit making promises and actually file for a permit to build his huge complex in Silver Spring? In December 1986, with much fanfare, Mr. Moore announced plans to build a mall and office project two-thirds the...

You will be hosing ethanol into your gas tank. You will. It’s the law.The 551-page Energy Policy Act of 2005, signed last August, includes many sops to a blur of special interests, but one single provision rang the bell for automakers, greenies, and farmers, and...

Turkey's prime minister on Friday laid out a policy vision for the next five years that focuses on pursuing European Union membership and defending the state's secular and democratic principles.Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who won a second term in July elections, also said in...