Or, for more emphasis, take the initiative Then there's"off-line," as in"Let's go off-line on that sub ject." What they mean is, "Let's discuss that separately, outside the meeting." "Reengineering" seems to be here to stay in contexts that have nothing to do with engineers. Anything that's changed in any way is likely to be described as"reengineered." We might even have said, without raising eyebrows in trendy circles, that we reengineered" this book. What we did say- that we expanded the book and updated it-may stir you less but tells you more