She told us, through Galletta, that she would speak slowly and take her time.

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That's not to say you have to speak slowly, but think of it this way -- you're aiming to speak more like Brian Williams on the Nightly News then you are like yourself when chatting with your long-lost sister.

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If you are in a large room with 1, 000 people in the audience, you need to speak more slowly than usual, using slightly longer pauses.

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It is almost impossible to speak too slowly.

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"If Halliburton is found by a Delaware jury to be grossly negligent, that finding will be available to all plaintiffs in the MDL, " says Brewer, who earned the dislike of opponents early in his career for tricks like counseling his clients to speak obnoxiously slowly in depositions.

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Payal Khan, an accent trainer for Infowavz, told the BBC Go Digital radio programme that she spent a lot of time teaching people to speak clearly and slowly.

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Some of the extra capacity will be absorbed in the new practice of slow steaming - industry-speak for sailing more slowly.

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The smarter, and more effective, way to get published is to offer your expertise to sites that speak directly to your audience, slowly moving from niche publications to big-time outlets.

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Or will ministers at least set a target date for its implementation so we can prepare the ground for the day when we can all go abroad and speak other languages rather than simply speaking more slowly and loudly in English in the hope "Johnny foreigner" will understand?

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