canned presentation

Really, he'd done a canned presentation to cover himself.

He saw his officers relax a little, as people always did when preparing to watch a canned presentation, no matter how grim the situation.

"Now," Anne said after consulting her clipboard again and making Laurie feel as though she was getting a canned presentation.

He was the first guy I saw walk into a meeting and sit down at a table and roll up his sleeves and talk about business without giving a canned presentation.

Unstudied in an era of handlers and canned presentations, reticent in an age of instant intimacies, she is unguarded enough to reveal insecurities that most women find familiar.

A canned presentation is a must for selling to the reticent customer, but many consumers will signal their interests and concerns, especially if prompted by specific questions, such as, in the case of automobiles, asking them how they are planning to use the car.

"It was clear to me that what we were not going to have a discussion, but rather a canned presentation," said William B. Patterson, director of the office of corporate affairs for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Washington, who heads the office that advises the union's 150 local pension funds on corporate issues.