Life was usually hurrying me to somewhere else, as it is now, but this time being cooped up in a sweltering car on such a radiant late spring day is just too much.
I still smile when I think of the skinflint behaviour the card evokes – of Aberdonians fleeing their homes before charitable tin-rattlers come knocking at the door, and then hurrying back again to avoid similar tin-rattlers, this time armed with tiny flags that, quick as lightning, they plunge into your lapel.
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The smartly-dressed woman hurrying down York Road seems undecided too: "I don't have any political views, we just vote Labour".
"The president will do something … by the grace of God the girls will be brought back home," she said, before hurrying off as the crowd booed.
Hurrying up building projects raises costs.
People can, say, drive to a meeting point in separate vehicles but car-pool home, or use a car when hurrying to a meeting but take a bus back home.
After four sessions, they had still not as expected fixed a date for the Conclave, the electoral college, made up of cardinals below the age of 80, which will actually choose the next pope.The papal spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, said the members of the general congregation, who include older cardinals, are not "hurrying things".
But so too is the London businessman hurrying along Pall Mall: his fashion is the pinstripe suit and dreadful club tie.
"There is a sense that we matter," gushed one conference delegate before hurrying off to a speaking engagement.
But that, as it turned out, was unfortunate, for the company is no longer hurrying towards those fresh green pastures.BP insists that the role of renewable energy in its strategy has not changed, but admits that investment in it will fall from $1.4 billion in 2008 to between $500m and $1 billion this year.
