Neither is he interested in idle conversation, as I found when I met him last week.
Even today, the Obama administration comes up a fat zero in idle talking points.
Now, with Obama back to his populist Pablum, our economy and stock market are stuck again in idle.
Throw in idle employees at layoff-averse companies and the rate is more like 10%, figures Dai-ichi Life Research Institute.
In Idle Worship, the entire point of interaction is to have fun.
Sometimes, this is due to the strong opinions that a cabbie expresses when I ask a question or engage in idle chatter.
So much for the complaints I sometimes hear in Asia about the U.S. being in idle retreat from that part of the world.
In previous work, they demonstrated that phones in idle listening mode expend roughly the same amount of power as they do when they're fully awake.
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They discovered that, depending on the amount of traffic in the network, devices in power-saving modes spend 60 to 80 percent of their time in idle listening.
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The premise of the book is an interview with the Devil, where he admits that he dwells in idle minds, and finds it easy to control the minds of drifters.
The two sides, which rarely agree on anything, say the bridges cost the Spanish economy hundreds of millions of euros in lost production, as they result in idle plants and half-empty offices.
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Mr. THOMPSON: ...we're looking at that, but we're just going to have to be a little bit better at not letting the tractors sit around in idle while we're doing an odd job.
It's supposed to work only in idle time, but what it thinks of as idle time (when the hard disk isn't working) usually doesn't jibe with how you see idle time (when you're not using the PC at all).
Maybe you could start by stopping even once in a while, relishing moments, and creating idle moments in non-idle situations.
The Japanese World Cup odyssey started in the idle curiosity of Kobe and finished in the fireworks of Yokohama.
He also owns a busy fish-and-chip shop in the district of Idle in Bradford, Yorkshire.
Mr Einhorn objects to the fact that a significant percentage of his investment in Apple shares in effect sits idle, invested in cash that pays very little return and has accused Apple of a "Depression-era mentality".
In her idle moments she daydreams about becoming a figure skater like those she has seen on television, gliding effortlessly across the ice in a flash of sequins.
Although a member of the UN observer mission reckons that loyalist forces include at least two combat brigades that have been held in reserve, apart from fixed-wing bombers and chemical weapons, activists report that much of the Sunni rank and file is in effect idle.
While AMD did score well in specific usage models, Intel performed a better, particularly in modes where the system was idle or in sleep mode.
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The new government of Yoshihiko Noda wants to reduce Japan's reliance on nuclear power in the medium term, but hopes to restart idle reactors in the meantime.
Some of them now control critical places such as the airport, while Congolese soldiers sit idle in their barracks.
It is so realistic that when a firefighter pulls the throttles back to idle in the cockpit, fire coming out of engines will lessen.
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While experiencing these hardships, we were not idle in our minds.
The airspace was empty and trains left idle in station sidings.
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This sad little story is being mirrored all over the Gulf: hapless crews find themselves having to beg for rations while their impounded vessels lie idle in port.
"I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people, " Mr. Obama said, outlining his rational for using force.
It is rather as though a household with lots of cash sitting idle in a low-interest bank account was at the same time paying a much higher interest rate on its debts.
Less than a mile away, by the waterfront, multi-million dollar yachts idle in the marina, gleaming white, shaded from the sun by rows of white canvas awnings, the very picture of California dreaming.
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