• Employer groups argue that the regulatory flip-flopping would have made it difficult for them to plug the shortage in seasonal workers at a busy time for crop production.

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  • Rather than putting extra strain on services vital for real emergencies at this busy time of year people with cold and flu symptoms should use available medication and if worried visit a pharmacist for expert advice.

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  • Police attended the incident and managed traffic which was busy at the time.

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  • "To have such a wide swath of the park at a very busy time of the year to be impacted by such severe storms is highly unusual, " he said.

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  • Hanni, founder of Flyers Rights, a nonprofit airline consumer group, said airlines were overscheduling in busy time slots at JFK before the runway closed on March 1.

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  • You know, I was busy in law school at the time, or studying for the bar.

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  • And it is even easier at a time when everybody is busy, everybody is stressed, and everybody -- our culture is obsessed with wealth and power and celebrity.

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  • "If you're going to be working out at 5:30 p.m. every day, and you don't like crowds, you want to check to see how busy the club is at this time, " MacInnis says.

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  • Virgin Media and London Underground engineers continue to test and prepare the forthcoming WiFi service, including recent capacity testing at Chancery Lane underground station where hundreds of devices were connected to the station's WiFi service at exactly the same time to reproduce the service experience of a busy Tube train arriving at the station2.

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  • Karl collaborated at that time, but he was always a very busy man.

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  • One part of Google is busy creating indexes of online information while at the same time filtering out "spam, " which in this context means Web sites whose only function is to make money off the fact you land on them, without providing any sort of "value-added" information in the process.

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  • In my time at City, Paul Walsh was similar: very busy, never giving up, chasing everything and always looking to create chances.

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  • Hilton Romanski is Vice President of Global Corporate Development at Cisco Systems - a busy and demanding job that means his leisure time is precious.

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  • At the same time, the mom-of-three is also busy running her new startup.

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  • He only focused on one idea at a time and did not muddle what he was saying by having busy PowerPoint slides behind him.

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  • Given the busy lifestyles, parents have fewer opportunities to be with their children at meal time.

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  • Mr. Ice has hired three new lawyers and says he's so busy he has stopped playing golf and spends most of his time at the office.

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  • At the same time, the two foreign-led private-equity groups are busy sweet-talking Netcom, apparently offering the firm up to 50% of whatever assets they end up with more or less for nothing, thus diluting their own interests to minority status.

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  • Some are spending money on taxi rides to school, while others are carving out time from busy schedules to drive children to class or spend the day at home with them.

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  • Companies are organized in such a way as to kill good ideas, not let them bloom, but at the same time they flood their pipelines with mediocre drug candidates in order to look busy, long before the development of those experimental medicines should have stopped.

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  • He said it was a busy, residential street and there were a number of young people in the area at the time, who could have been injured.

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  • Lewis made a legitimate pass and then was repassed - at the time the team asked race control several times about the repass but they were too busy to answer that question so we felt the decision in the immediate aftermath was fair.

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  • And a couple of Major League Soccer teams were interested right at the end of my career but I was busy in the media and it was not the right time to go.

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  • Busy dodging bands of marauding protesters, its ministers have been doing precious little governing, at a time when Thailand's exports are crumbling, its vital tourist trade faces collapse and unemployment seems likely to soar.

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  • "With TSA staffing levels decreasing over time, we expect that during busy travel periods wait times exceeding 30-40 minutes could double at nearly all of the largest airports, " the TSA said in a statement.

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  • All were what you would call bread-and-butter physicians: busy, full-time, private-practice doctors who work from seven in the morning to seven at night and sometimes later, their waiting rooms teeming and their desks stacked with medical charts to review.

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