"Sorry if I'm talking too fast, " says Joshua McCarter as he clicks through a dozen slides.
Some of their leeriness is cultural--a fast-talking money guy horning in on an insular society.
But this is Peter Diamandis, the fast-talking, hand-chopping impresario of the tech and space worlds.
Jackson was soft-spoken, shy, socially inept -- everything the fast-talking and personable Clinton was not.
In fact, the idea for the fast-talking dragon (with Eddie Murphy's voice) came from Roy Disney, chairman of the animation department.
The election of Mr Serwotka, a hitherto unknown benefits agency worker and fast-talking union official in Leeds, was a big surprise.
At the center of his cast is Nutty the Squirrel, a fast-talking puppet that sounds like Mr. Maynard on caffeine and helium.
When he arrived in Turin, in 1953, the 25-year-old southerner had to win the confidence of northern Italians wary of fast-talking Neapolitans.
Note the fast-talking voiceover at the end of most promotional auto ads.
The Egyptian government, intent on suppressing its own Islamists, had felt threatened by Sudan's Islamist power-behind-the-throne, Hassan Turabi, the sharp, fast-talking speaker of parliament.
Younger voters may prefer the Greens (who won a seat in the European election in June) or Syriza, a left-wing splinter group run by Alexis Tsipras, a fast-talking, 30-something biker.
Muxlim's founder, Mohamed El-Fatatry is the Muslim equivalent of Mark Zuckerberg, a fast-talking 22-year-old based in Finland with visions of tapping a largely untouched Muslim user base around the world.
Frustrated that his cast couldn't fit the dialogue into a single shot, Mr. Eastwood took a cue from Howard Hawks's fast-talking screwball comedy to punch up a brooding Boston-set crime melodrama.
The fight could have been ripped from a script for the HBO show "Entourage, " one of whose characters, a fast-talking talent agent played by Jeremy Piven, was inspired by Mr. Emanuel.
"Embassies are the visible face of our country, " says Yale's fast-talking dean of art, Robert Storr, who moonlights as chairman of the organization's professional fine arts committee and guides its curatorial mission.
Led by the fast-talking David McCourt , RCN (as in Residential Communications Network) once bragged it would wire up 9 million cable, phone and Internet users among 25 million homes mostly in the northeastern corridor.
The one-joke-for-all-people theory is the reason why Mr Izzard, who came to the fore as a motor-mouthed transvestite, thought he could play Bruce, the fast-talking, short-lived, stand-up comedian who became famous in the early 1960s for saying the unsayable.
Key titles include the BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme, Newsnight, noted for its in-depth analysis and robust cross-examination of senior politicians (available within a week of the UK broadcast), as well as HARDTalk, Click (a popular technology magazine show covering news and developments in consumer technology), Fast Track and Talking Movies (a guide to the best in film, from the most recent Hollywood blockbusters to ground-breaking world cinema).
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Six months ago people were talking about overheating in Malaysia and Thailand -- now they are saying the economies are cooling too fast.
Even Democratic House leader Dick Gephardt, an opponent of the stalled fast-track proposal and a likely rival to Vice President Al Gore in 2000, is talking about offering an alternative.
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