overpromise

In any new industry, there's going to be people who overpromise.

Instead, Viget went out of their way to never overpromise.

But she is still undecided and worries about politicians who "overpromise."

The manufacturers are working hard not to overpromise.

"I think all handgun-violence controls overpromise their results, without exception," he told reporters today.

The quickest path to defeat is to overpromise seniors.

But if they do overpromise, they could spoil the broth for everybody."

If you overpromise, you usually underdeliver and create a whole bunch of problems for yourself."

"When you're talking about war with Iraq, you don't want to overpromise or underperform, especially in front of the president," said one senior Pentagon official.

"They've been exposed to a lot of ads that overpromise what products such as toys can deliver, so they can be very hard to persuade."

Microsoft is trying to market its machine as more powerful than the Playstation 2, while saying that the company is being careful not to "overpromise."

"It's extremely important not to overpromise."

Health products that overpromise usually under-deliver.

MDs like to overpromise to clients.

The campaign carries a theme, "Get your burger's worth," that doesn't overpromise, a welcome departure for the hyperbolic fast-food category.

Salespeople often want you to allow them to overpromise, because it gets them through the RFP.

"It is very important for us not to overpromise," said Colleen Barrett, Southwest's executive vice president for customer relations.

"You can't overpromise regulation's benefits," Mr. Erickson argued.

This gets into the whole thorny issue of how ISPs typically underprovision their capacity and overpromise on speeds.

Mr. Daschle, for example, cautioned his colleagues to watch their tongues, not to overpromise and to be sure to be inclusive as the year progressed.

The chief operating officer, Kenneth R. Klein, said: "A lot of companies overpromise and underdeliver.

You can't overpromise."

Acutely aware of that history, Mr. Daley was careful not to overpromise on his recent trip to South America, a much smaller market than China.

Horn, an assistant secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services, is a skilled spokesman for his cause, and he takes pains not to overpromise.

You can't overpromise, because the Afghans in the last five years have been promised a lot of things, and not a lot of things have followed through.