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"text": "The person running the meeting also has the important job of saying “Take it offline.” Whenever two or more people get off on a tangent that doesn’t require everybody’s attention, instruct them to continue the conversation outside the boundaries of the meeting.",
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"ref": "2009, Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, The Introverted Leader, Berrett-Koehler,, page 95",
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"text": "I stole the images offline"
}
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"ref": "1986, Kai Hwang, Steven M. Jacobs, Earl E. Swartzlander, Proceedings of the 1986 International Conference on Parallel Processing, page 462",
"text": "Offlining a memory processor can be accomplished by using the flexible interleaving capability described earlier to interleave segments across subsets of the memory processors, avoiding the faulty one(s).",
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},
{
"ref": "2008, Sam Alapati, Expert Oracle Database 11g Administration, page 908",
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