''Speaking of which, Nicholas, '' he says as he catches his trusty manservant whizzing by.
It is just one of many forces that send resources whizzing around the economy.
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They believe that, given the demands of a globalised, Internet-speed economy, container ships might soon be whizzing like speedboats.
In the Hasidic Jewish community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn residents have complained about spandex-clad female cyclists whizzing past their homes.
But other parts of Afghanistan have been largely spared the daily drumbeat of car bombs, assassinations and whizzing rockets.
Before the Tevatron closed, the experiments there sent beams of particles whizzing around a four-mile circumference in opposite directions.
It was surreal to be dodging paint pellets in an area where there were once real bullets whizzing through the air.
J002E3, as the object was called, actually skimmed past the Moon before whizzing back out into deeper space, disappointing the scientists.
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"Bullets were whizzing overhead and then about 3 or 4 in the morning, they turned all the lights off, " she said.
It was great for the special school kids because for once they were the best at something, whizzing around in their wheelchairs.
One of our favorite finds from this year's show is Bruno Greppi's funky electric Cykno Bike, which has been whizzing around town all week.
Owen Garriott says back then NASA would set up a communications link so that the astronauts could talk with their families while whizzing around the planet.
Just as someone next to me says it's the sound of a missile being fired there is an angry whizzing noise overhead and then an explosion.
An airliner with 500 phones on board, whizzing across a city, would befuddle the network as the phones busily hopped from one base-station to the next.
The noise and dirt of the cars whizzing past might be a little unbecoming, but the Colosseum is not a building to be hidden away in a quiet corner.
The astronauts, Michael Massimino and Michael Good, taped the pieces so they would not fly off into space where they could become potentially lethal projectiles whizzing about in orbit.
And everything, as I said, is in thrall to the delicate, wilding cursor controller, which in a moving automobile is about as accurate as whizzing out a third-story window.
On the side of the road, with traffic whizzing by, lights flashing and you incredibly nervous, they rattle off a series of instructions that they expect you to follow to the letter.
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Consider: Your first match is set aboard a spacecraft travelling through the cosmos at the speed of light Run past one of the ship's many windows and you'll see stars whizzing by outside.
The tree trunks, exposed banks and other hazards whizzing past represent a cornucopia of potential tort suits under U.S. law, yet somehow the Swiss manage to operate these runs without being sued into oblivion.
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At the story's center are all the clanging fireballs a kid could want to watch whizzing across a computerized sky -- not to mention naval strategy and a fact-based demonstration of real destroyer-ship capabilities.
Timid at first, easily swayed (quite literally) by the motorbikes whizzing two inches (five centimetres) past my pedals, I now happily join in the waving of fists at pedestrians or lorry drivers hogging MY bus and cycle lane.
You don't get the usual rumbling of an idling engine, just the whisper-quiet whirl of the e-tron's motor (Audi is currently engineering an "e-tron sound" so that outsiders will be able to hear the car) and wind whizzing by.
It authorizes the transaction and sends bits whizzing back, a 39, 000-kilometer roundtrip journey that involves five stops plus a calculation of how much to charge the merchant in fees and how to divvy up those fees among the banks.
Taouil also sent a drive whizzing past the right-hand post and Hibs' Derek Riordan had the last word in stoppage time, meeting a clearance to the edge of the penalty box and volleying it agonisingly on to the crossbar.
As it stands, there's quite a bit of red tape to wade through before either option goes forward, but kicking back on a whizzing train sounds an awful lot better than staring at pavement and blasting the air conditioner for five or so hours.
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Deft and purring, she seems to pounce in from another land entirely, a Hitchcockian pleasure ground of light fingers and matching repartee, and her expression is that of a grown woman who surveys all these sombre boys, plus their whizzing toys, and sees only Bat-crap.
Adding to the frantic nature of the piece is all the modern toys thrown at it projected images, archive footage, TV sets, smoke machines, desks whizzing by, even a live camera broadcasting a TV interview. (In one, the TV cameras block the view of the screaming newspaper headlines projected onto the back wall).
In countries like Vietnam and India where many people still get around on bicycle, visitors often find that cycling for all or part of their trip can offer the greatest opportunity to appreciate local life--the scents, sights and sounds that pass you by if you're whizzing through town in a taxi on the way to and from your hotel.
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