He next drifted to Wall Street, where he invested in growth companies like Rubbermaid and the forerunners of the computer and genetics revolutions, Microsoft, Netscape, America Online and Genentech.
With 4km to go Reid was the next to drift away and, as they came through transition for the final time, Stimpson tried to stretch the pace further, dropping the dangerous Jackson and hurting Hewitt.
When that failed, he wiped off the makeup, donned a suit and spent the next decade drifting up the ranks in the student union office at the University of London.
However, her closing ace, wide to the forehand at 99mph, took her to match point and Bartoli's return on the next point drifted wide.
Instead of progressing from one event to the next, it drifts among "all the levels of perception," he said, which include "dreams, things you long for, memories, an imagined future, the conscious present, a reality that is beyond us".
We leapt on board a sightseeing boat and for the next hour drifted past cellar restaurants, cellar bars, arty cellar shops, a cellar gym and even a cellar theatre.
At the other end Priestland levelled in the 48th minute, but held his head in his hands after his next shot drifted wide as the third quarter drew to a close.
Urmson was explaining to me that the "brains" of the whole system are stored in a laptop-sized computer stashed in the rear of the vehicle when suddenly a car in the next lane drifted across the lane marker as the driver fumbled to reach his hat on the passenger seat.
We can't afford to let the next few weeks drift away in a cloud of smoke.
