Word: tangental
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...INTERESTING tangent to this study is the question of the effect that riots in the cities has on job applications. Detroit, which has been the scene of some of this country's worst riots, is the most unpopular city. Chicago, another racially tense city, was almost as widely disliked as Detroit. Figures like these might convince to business based to try to improve their surroundings if they hope to attract new talent...
...most of the 19 points on the earth's surface where three Rouse belts intersected coincided with areas of major earthquake or volcanic activity. Significantly, the planes of the belts passed through the boundary between the earth's molten core and its solid mantle, each being approximately tangent to the core...
...tugging on the earth's iron core. But the core is prevented from responding to extraterrestrial magnetic pull by the inertia of the rotating mantle that surrounds it. The resulting conflict sets up stresses in the boundary between the mantle and the core that are released in planes tangent to the core...
...solid core. The core was attached to a spindle that the scientists used to spin their model earth, accelerating it to simulate the effects of tugging magnetic fields. When the modeling compound dried and formed a thin crust, its larger cracks clearly defined major stress planes that were tangent to the core...
...piano learns. Then it learns the orchestra is wrong. They fight and the piano wins-not triumphantly, but with a few weak, sad notes-sort of Charlie Chaplin humorous." In the first movement, the piano lightheartedly followed the lead of the orchestra, then gradually swerved off on its own tangent, while the orchestra shouted its disapproval with great thunderclaps of dense, dissonant chords...