At first our view of the river was blocked by wall-to-wall houseboats, while far-off cranes leaned like giraffes over half-finished apartment blocks.
Later in 2010, Rogoff wrote another article in the Financial Times in which he reiterated: "The risks of rising debt, while apparently far off, cannot be lightly dismissed".
It may take a while, but one day not too far off, clicking on zinfandel and waiting for the Federal Express delivery will be an essential part of the wine experience.
While that may seem far off, it's wonderfully fast for the biopharmaceutical industry, where development is onerously slow, difficult and uncertain.
I asked Sanz what happens when the skies get too busy, and he said that while we're still far off from that point, in the future companies will likely work together using aerial and satellite imaging and common communications channels to ensure that even above commercial flight altitude, they won't interfere with one another.
A puzzle and a paradox about the human drive to understand and transcend time and space, so far off, while keeping eyes closed.
At this early time, their assumptions on the class's specifications were quite far off; while they were correct on their length, the class was given as having a beam of 110 feet (in actuality, it was about 127 feet) and a displacement of 40,000 57,000 tons (in actuality, 69,000 tons).
While Malawi is still far off from obtaining equitable health outcomes among the rich and the poor, it has outpaced other sub-Saharan African countries by committing more government funds to healthcare, prioritizing maternal care and bringing medical resources to rural areas.
When I spoke with him on the afternoon of Jan . 18 the same day that Barak stated publicly that any decision to strike pre-emptively was "very far off," Ya'alon, while reiterating that an attack was the last option, took pains to emphasize Israel's resolve.
The conflict in the Pacific was still far off, and while there had been some terrible battles, with many Army, Navy, and Marine casualties in the Solomon Islands (and large Army losses in New Guinea and the Aleutians), the carnage was a remote abstraction to me; besides, I was eager to test my manhood.
