"They would sit and talk for hours about how the U.S. peanut industry handles things, " he said.
For a man who can talk for hours about changing how people can drive, that kind of risk-taking panache is what may be needed to shake up the personal vehicle industry.
Pacing around a room, they will talk for hours about future technologies such as voice recognition (they call their team working on it the "wreck a nice beach" group, because that's what invariably appears on the screen when someone speaks the phrase "recognize speech" into the system), then wander onto topics ranging from quantum physics to genetic engineering.
So common sense would dictate not to talk on the phone for hours if your small and ring fingers go numb.
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We could sit here for hours and talk but I think we've done it.
Then she switched on a tape recorder and let the entrepreneur talk through the problems for two hours.
When I was at Inter Milan we used to have dinner together and talk together for two to three hours getting to know one another.
Nokia, with an eye to emerging markets where electricity is scarce and there's high Internet usage by young people, claims the battery is good for 17 hours of talk time.
We do know that it's rated for three hours of talk time and 130 hours of standby, it weighs 21 grams, offers Bluetooth 3.0 compatibility and will work with Galaxy Note devices -- you could use it as a headset with other gadgets, though there wouldn't be much appeal.
Curiously, individual customers turn out greatly to prefer paying a single fee for, say, unlimited text-messaging or 90 hours of telephone talk-time, rather than paying for each item, one at a time even though that might be a cheaper option.
Ranchers are urged to talk about the hours they spend caring for cattle all those trips to the pasture at 3 a.m. to help a laboring cow give birth.
And Sprint claims 5.7 hours of talk time on one charge, more than the five hours that Apple claims for its 3G model.
Having a chance to talk to the two major customers in a social setting for several hours made the difference.
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It's also a way for pundits, bloggers and talk-show hosts to elevate themselves during the 24-hours news cycle, says Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture history at Syracuse University in New York City.
Alan Wells attacked the "daily grunt" culture, in which parents no longer talk to their children and instead just let them sit in front of the television or computer for hours.
If you cut down on school hours to get a part-time job for financial reasons, for instance, talk about how that shows you are responsible about finances and already have experience in the workforce.
Well, we have talk in the past about others options, such as putting in 1, 000 hours now to prepare for next job and starting something on the side today that could lead you to your next career.
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In one pamphlet aimed at promoting breastfeeding, for example, the CDC encourages women to talk to their employers and demand breastfeeding support (time and a place to pump, for example, or hours that enable the woman to return home to breastfeed).
As for business, trade with Europe will continue to suffer from four hours a day when John cannot talk to Johannes or Jean: one hour at the start of the day when he is in the office and they aren't, one at the end when they are and he isn't, and two because of the non-coincidence of their lunch hours.
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