He converted fast days into feast days, ate unkosher food, allowed women to read the Torah in synagogue and even, it was persistently rumoured, presided over orgies.
Formula One cars are way too fast these days to run at racing speeds through gaps no wider than a tennis court.
Technology platforms move on so fast these days that a delay of a couple of months can near obliterate the window available for success.
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The bulk of the proceeds from the IPO went to the company, but within a lightning fast 15 days of the offering 4.7 million shares were freed from their lock-up restrictions and available for sale in the public markets.
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He began a hunger strike, but when he ended his fast after 57 days, his authority, built on a reputation for toughness and dedication, was severely damaged in the eyes of republicans.
French officials say there was no link between the raid to free the hostage in Mali, as the rescue mission had been in the planning for many weeks while in Mali events moved fast in recent days.
That means they can raise funding ridiculously fast in days or even hours.
So in a desperate, fast and furious 11 days they managed to scour the beaches clean by collecting tonnes of the crude and dumping it into a disused quarry.
An agreement had to be reached by midnigh U.S. time on April 1 in order to be considered for fast-track approval by the U.S. Congress, the required 90 days before the current fast-track authority expires.
Mr Hazare had pledged to go on hunger strike in the capital, Delhi, Tuesday despite police denying him permission to fast for more than three days.
Adding to the intrigue, the track itself had produced super-fast times through the first three days of track-and-field competition.
With its rough-around-the-edges aesthetic, however, he didn't expect it to catch on very fast and, in the early days of development, set a sales target of 10, 000 units within his lifetime.
But the Wild West days of software development are fast coming to an end.
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Yes, the price level has 6.7% to go (which could happen in a matter of weeks or even days markets move fast).
Meanwhile Department Stores are not collapsing super, ultra fast, which should count for victory these days.
He says he was unable to keep track of the dead in the final days because soldiers were dying too fast.
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Tiger Woods recently credited V1 Pro, the best-known swing recording and analysis system, with helping so many young golfers these days get so good, so fast.
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He has designed a drug, telavancin, that may work three times as fast as vancomycin, which can take nine days or more to quell a staph infection.
Ms. AUSTIN: We know on the days when children and teens eat fast food, they consume more calories, more fat, more added sugars and fewer fruits and vegetables.
Senior creative engineer, Patrick Miller, describes his days at DL as technically difficult, fast-paced, and fun.
In those days crude oil production was rising as fast as new oil fields could be found.
Turner says it's very difficult to provide hard-and-fast earnings estimates for Northern Peru in these early days.
Some of Mr Rodriguez Zapatero's friends even complain these days that Mr Aznar is not liberalising fast enough.
She said she will be attending all three days of Mr. Hazare's fast.
Few expect hard and fast policies to be put in place after three days of discussion and the likelihood is that participants will sign up to a document committing themselves to further action in the future.
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