It helps that Galbraith lets goof facts that threaten to bog down his story.
When Web surfers aren't cruising for cheesecake, they're still looking to goof off.
Setting aside time to goof off at work can relieve stress, improve morale and even help with team building efforts.
As far as the stakeholders are concerned, every goof-up can cost the retailer a bomb and the fraudster, possible jail time.
All you have to do to enter is share your worst tax move, your biggest tax goof or your silliest tax gaffe.
"I wanted to goof off, so I did all the master's course work in one year, then went to Fiji, " he says.
Fans watch pro players goof around, practice and play in massive tournaments, all through the portal of a stream on their computer.
Already, Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, may have made his first big goof.
Or it could give you a new way to goof off in the dorm when you're supposed to be writing that term paper.
Though Dignitas and Curse have both admitted the DQ was justified, neither has confirmed that they did anything wrong past playing the ARAM goof-off game.
When I talk to business managers and others about the book, people ask about whether employees will goof off when you give them space to be creative.
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Although, sometimes it gets tiring because you get really busy, and sometimes you just want to goof off and watch a little TV and not do anything, right?
For me, the weekend experience was a goof to see how much I could make, but I started paying attention to who else was out there with me.
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The motif of the "brushstroke, " painted and three-dimensional, as a goof on Willem de Kooning in 1960s and on graffiti by the 1990s, serves to unify the exhibition.
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On the Jukebox, Creative has tried to remedy the goof with a plastic instruction sheet stuck on the case telling users how to turn it on and off.
He is smart enough to know that people don't want to see him goof around they come to witness the refined mien, the sublime ground strokes, the buttery cross court volleys.
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This fall will mark the 100th anniversary of "Merkle's Boner, " a base-running goof by the New York Giants' Fred Merkle that helped blow the 1908 National League pennant to the Chicago Cubs.
Despite a fervent fan campaign to save Mr Toad's Wild Ride, the Coney Island-style, runaway car goof was run off the road in 1998 in favour of the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
Our next President will look like an economic genius if he or she doesn't goof up by raising taxes, continuing the Bush weaken-the-dollar policy or sitting by while agencies such as the FCC issue stupid regulations.
The next U.S. president will look like an economic genius if he or she doesn't goof up by raising taxes, continuing the Bush weaken-the-dollar policy or sitting by while agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission issue stupid regulations.
For example, you might fudge on the amount of time it takes you to complete a task you were asked to perform by your spouse because you want to build in enough time to goof off before you actually do it.
And it does so in a dumbed-down Esperanto that its audience can't fail to understand -- the universal language of commercial TV sitcoms, with their constrained cultural vocabulary and their subtext of harmlessness: Don't be offended, none of this really means anything, it's just a goof about a lot of dumb stuff going down around us.
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