More important, the administration has broken longstanding promises of lifetime health care to those who defend our nation.

("I hate you," he replied after his mother broke her longstanding promise to take him to a Yankees game.)

Those governments are beginning to do the necessary research to determine the current costs and the future obligations of their longstanding promises to help pay for retirees' health care.

When it comes to programs they favor, however, these critics tend to say the reductions go too far, or break longstanding promises.

Lenders said that these proposals contradict President Clinton's longstanding promises to spur growth among small businesses, which he considers the most effective job-creating strategy.

However, the league, with the encouragement of Garden management, reneged on a longstanding promise to allow the Amerks to return.

"The Medicare reform we did is good reform, fulfills a longstanding promise to our seniors," he said after a meeting with a group of economists.

Supporters of the system say such a realignment would represent a retreat from New York's longstanding promise of equal medical care for rich and poor.

"A longstanding promise" was made to a 7-year-old boy who does not understand the welfare bill.

This bike trip, the fulfillment of Lyle's longstanding promise to show me some of his favorite Texas biking roads, had been planned two days earlier.