Restaurants were busy, if not quite as busy as some locals said they had been pre-crisis.
Business builders, even those whose start-ups have grown long in the tooth, are nothing if not busy.
All this had occurred by the time Dickinson asked him if he was too busy to read her poems, as if it were the most reasonable request in the world.
This isn't research showing that pensioners are better off having friends - it suggests that we are all likely to enjoy health benefits if we have busy social lives.
If you are busy raising children without societal help and trying to earn a living during a recession, you don't have much time to question and change the world that you and your children inhabit.
If ATC is busy and clearance cannot be obtained to fly through the Class Bravo airspace, it is still possible to fly the Bay Tour: execute a left Dumbarton departure heading toward Half Moon Bay, follow the coastline all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge, then east to the Bay Bridge and retrace your path back to PAO staying under Class Bravo airspace throughout.
But if they're busy they maybe don't stick to the criteria and they're not so careful.
If it is too busy, backtrack and go down Somerset Place to Little Mule Co.
If you know how busy I am, then why are you taking up my time with unsolicited emails?
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Besides, if he kept them busy with follow-up missions, they would have had no time to talk or text.
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If the lines are busy, an answerphone message tells children to keep redialling.
If they are too busy online to hang around as much, maybe that explains why they are causing less trouble.
He added also suggested that doctors were less likely to allow women to have a natural birth if the hospital is busy.
And if Craig is too busy, Bond has always benefited from reinvention.
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With this budget process, fewer and fewer families or the elderly will be able to get to the park if they're busy scrambling to get by.
They seemed genuinely happy for their boss, who, as if she were not busy enough, helps them study for civil service promotion exams on her own time.
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If you do travel during busy times, go armed with information on wait times, she says.
But the approach has limits: Tesco's shoppers have taken to complaining if stores are crowded by busy internet packers.
And you could be distressed even though you're not all that busy -- if you just hate what you're doing.
If you live near a busy international airport, it could be very noisy, but usually in the dead of night, it gets quiet.
But if the alternative in your busy life is just grabbing the closest bottle at the grocery store (the horror), well then, you need to join a club.
"This takes special coordination with air-traffic controllers, but if they are not too busy, they will usually comply with the request, " said Russ Webber, a US Airways captain based in Phoenix.
The assumption is there's no harm if modern medicine accommodates a busy obstetrician, a hectic family schedule or simply the mother's desire to get to the finish line and give birth.
Some cut-price airlines want regulators to force Swiss and British Airways to give up valuable take-off and landing slots at London's busy Heathrow airport if Swiss is allowed to become a Oneworld member.
The two stories seem unrelated but are actually tightly linked, and together raise the age-old question: If people are too lazy (or busy) to walk from the car to the burger counter, does it really matter if the fries have a little less fat?
Even if on Monday I'm very, very busy -- and that proceeds throughout the week -- if you know you have a habit of a weekly day of rest, of stopping, then you always know that's out in front of you.
If a health worker is "busy and doing a couple different things, it's easy to click on the wrong one, " said Alison Connelly-Flores, the clinical system administrator at Urban Health Plan.
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There's the young city worker, with his tie always at half-mast as if to emphasise how "dreadfully busy" he is, even though he's been standing on the platform for at least 15 minutes.
There is nothing to suggest that the problems at these companies wouldn't have happened if these directors had been less busy, but it raises the question of how much quality time a director can spend working on company business.
But if Meyers is around and not too busy, he will take you into the back office that was once the stage.
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