Nobody references Paul Revere being waylaid by British soldiers and warning them that the Americans were coming.

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One time, after giving a presentation to his scientists, Rathmann was waylaid by one of his managers.

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Furthermore, it is possible that the whiff of corruption detected by Mr Alami will convince Iranians that, while Mr Khatami himself is honest, ministers have been waylaid on the path to democracy by old-fashioned enjoyment of power.

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We kept on getting waylaid.

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He approached Union Pacific (nyse: UNP - news - people ) Railroad and CSX (nyse: CSX - news - people ) Transportation about dedicating a single train full of refrigerated cars that could travel from the West Coast to the East Coast without getting waylaid.

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