Goldman is going off on a tangent and is not really discussing any real challenges.
"I'm sorry, but I feel you guys were off on a tangent there, " Robinson said.
The bum was moving at a tangent now, off the sidewalk, into the street.
The judge, less given to speculation, simply thought that Pereda had gone off on a tangent.
When a reporter asked McCain what would happen if he lost the Florida primary, he went off on a Manchester tangent.
"The people who built the Mars rovers are hackers, " says Jeff Moss, also known as "Dark Tangent, " the hacker who has organized DefCon for the last 15 years.
There's nothing more frustrating when reading a story or when watching a movie than being led off at a tangent as the author indulges in some pointless navel-gazing.
Westin saw an opportunity to accommodate not only their guests, but the wider community of rudderless workers, and launched Tangent in Boston and Arlington, Virginia, as well as in Munich, Germany.
Without delving into a tangent on the nuances of under-employment, discouraged workers or issuing a polemic on why unemployment remains elevated even as the workforce shrinks, these figures demonstrate the dubious legitimacy of macroeconomics.
One important tangent of this discussion hasn't had much exposure in the United States: the now 25-year-old wave of new Chinese documentary (and documentary-influenced fiction), whose development has paralleled the nation's emergence as an economic powerhouse.
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When discussing politics and policy with your friends or dinner companions (and my hope is that they are both) it is a solid tangent when disagreements arise to go down the road of asking if they believe scarcity exists.
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Or, on a more tenuous tangent, if you put the smoke and "dreamt up" notes together, you could perhaps surmise that this is going to be the launch for the HTC Vision, which has most recently been referred to as the G1 Blaze.
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