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He was busy winning the Nobel Prize, and he was busy learning to draw.
While Paramount was busy brainstorming exotic new locales for its comedy dream team, Hope was busy chasing any woman who wasn't his wife, Dolores.
He kept telling her that he was busy, that her mother was busy, that she should also be busy, take care of her own life.
Sidebar WASHINGTON — Justice Clarence Thomas was busy in February.
"He was busy with the oil company," Gaston told PEOPLE.
All of the sudden, this ... He was busy speeding somewhere.
While Spade was busy spiraling, he missed things like P!
While I was there, Hasselblad was busy producing X1D cameras.
Tax overhaul While you were sleeping, the Senate was busy.
Maybe Scarlett Johansson was busy the day of that casting.
I was busy, and South Africa added to the tension.
I figured he was busy Snapchatting, so was not deterred.
I had all the wristbands and the booth was busy.
I was busy doing a philosophy MA at the time.
I called Meryl Streep and she said she was busy.
One student was busy planning for his 17th birthday party.
Mr. Coppola was busy on Broadway early in his career.
A crew member was busy dusting an enormous leather sectional.
The president's "A" team was busy at the White House.
He was busy watching his son play high school football.
She was busy with her fashion and she has moved on.
Buddy Rasmussen was busy, if also slightly annoyed with his lover.
Sammy, who said he was busy with customers, told him no.
I was taking births through her and I was busy quickly.
Unfortunately that detective was busy, so frog detective got the case.
Dakin Campbell was busy breaking news on fresh Goldman Sachs departures.
"I was busy with sports broadcasting and funeral arrangements," he explains.
But the pop culture mainstay was busy creating until the end.
He said he was busy learning from the country's populists leaders.
The country was busy catching up with Europe in many ways.
While Amazon was busy cleaning house, its rivals continued making moves.
In reply, Ms. Brennan-Jobs says she knows he was busy.
They told us the air force was busy in other provinces.
Graveyard was busy opening several packs of money with his teeth.
The bar was busy, and the stranger and I were close.
When Ronal was shot, Javier was busy picking up another body.
Sphengic, whose personality has yet to develop, was busy eating ice.
"I was busy balancing my personal life and Ray's life," she says.
I never had a love life; I was busy doing my career.
Orbán was busy creating a new, more dramatic story of the nation.
While Yelp was busy building these internal systems, AWS wasn't sitting still.
I don't know, man, I was busy making beats all last year.
He called me yesterday because he missed me but I was busy.
When we got back from the club, Marie was busy planting bombs.
The OR was busy today, and I get relieved later than usual.
When Reuters rang Semlex headquarters, staff several times said she was busy.
I was busy being super presidential, by bombing a bunch of s---.
I wanted to make an "eep" noise too, but I was busy.
The art world was busy talking about the "political" in the abstract.
Equity was busy last week, so catch up if you missed anything.
He was busy at Yankee Stadium covering the Bronx Bombers' playoff game.
I was busy with other things but she kept tossing out ideas.
And when Tuesday's hearing was underway, Trump was busy writing more tweets.
Mr. Anne's daughter, Halimata, was busy winnowing corn in an open field.
But behind the scenes, Trump's staff was busy dishing to the press.
Grimes was busy consoling Musk over his inability to log off Twitter.
I was busy with work and then got serious with my now-gf!
I was busy this weekend so my lunch is simple, but it's tasty.
Into my early forties I was busy planning every detail of my life.
I ignored it for months, this little hint, because I was busy living.
"Ow," she remarked, while her puppy was busy gently gnawing on her earrings.
Many farmers brought their goods by boat, so our market day was busy.
Bolt was busy dazzling the universe, even as he celebrated his 21992nd birthday.
He was busy fighting one of his groomsmen in the other room. 12.
While McLean was busy dominating North America, Kishida was running the Japanese scene.
I was busy making something for her while we were in the weeds.
"Step 9: "He called Champs back multiple times because the line was busy.
Instead of providing information, the Soviet propaganda was busy battling the foreign media.
No boss telling me I had to come in because it was busy.
It was busy, but thankfully, it wasn't quite the nightmare that I expected.
She was busy typing, her face washed in the light from her screen.
His guards simply told the protesters that the general was busy or resting.
Tariq was busy with the campaign, but he often checked in on Manu.
For me, it was because I was busy—busy running the rat race.
She confronted me about it, and defended herself by saying she was busy.
Instead, she was busy sitting on the floor of the House of Representatives.
"She was busy opening doors for people and inspiring them," her son said.
Amazon, on the other hand, was busy surviving the dot-com bubble burst.
"My fear is that my tombstone will say 'She was busy,' " she said.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The South Dakota Legislature's social calendar was busy this year.
The militia leader, Ezzedine el-Waqwaq, said he was busy with civilian matters.
I hardly heard from him last night, so I figured he was busy.
"While Russia was busy protecting the regime, Assad took notice," Ms. Haley said.
President Ivanka Trump tried to console him, but of course she was busy.
Friends and family say the couple was busy making plans for the future.
"She was busy with saving lives, forgetting about herself," said Mr. Ahmad, 59.
But that's not all she was busy with in the beauty department on Tuesday.
Now, Secretary Clinton was busy giving speeches to Goldman Sachs for $21.43,215 a speech.
Instead of building its own Chrome browser, it was busy creating the Google Toolbar.
"We asked if someone could water the tree, but everyone was busy," Biersteker said.
Monday is a holiday for Americans, but Meghan Markle was busy with royal duties.
President Trump's first full day in Saudi Arabia was busy, to say the least.
She escaped twice during the festivities, while her owner was busy taking the photos.
Still, the trip was busy for Tillerson, who held numerous bilateral meetings on Thursday.
And, Toby was busy getting married in a spontaneous ceremony to Yvonne (Kara Royster).
Instead of providing information, the Soviet propaganda machine was busy battling the foreign media.
I mean I was busy taking my kids to soccer and baseball but still.
He couldn't come back right away because he was busy fighting crime in N.Y.C. . . .
The White House was busy this week trying to reassure moderate Republicans as well.
Work was busy, but our financials were doing well and our clients were happy.
But life was busy, and finding a way to pay them off seemed complicated.
The place was busy with tourists, as well as with worshippers arriving for Vespers.
But such was the naiveté of youth—I was busy playing State of Emergency.
Suddenly Europe was America's scapegoat, while China was busy sending medical aid to Italy.
He thanked us but conveniently still has not published after claiming he was busy!
When I was growing up, my father was busy with his state-government job.
On Wednesday, Lucky Lee's, on University Place between 10th and 11th Streets, was busy.
I had forgotten to do this (okay, I was busy and a bit lazy).
My wife was busy with the phone and annoyed that I was bothering her.
So people, when it was busy ... took about 20 minutes to download The Hotline.
Eason, however, was busy doing construction work in the couple's shed, and Evans lost it.
We can hear the excuse now: Your Honor, I was busy earning my stripes. Testify!
While filming the comedy, Timberlake was busy dating his soon-to-be wife Jessica Biel.
In the community of Bell Canyon in Ventura County, Paul Manion was busy filling sandbags.
The day Donald Trump was sworn in as president, this rocket was busy ditching Earth.
That was the joke Wednesday morning when he was busy meeting with Central American leaders.
"She was busy working and was kind of dating off and on," Lyne's friend says.
"I was doing really well, and I was busy all of the time," says Carberry.
The other friend was busy multi-tasking: Typing on her laptop while working remotely. 3.
Southwest Airlines Twitter account (zSouthwestAir) was busy with hundreds of customers concerned about the plane.
The artist Rebecca Meah was busy scraping at a crocodile-shaped slab of clay recently.
Sveshnikov declined to comment when contacted by Reuters on Tuesday, saying he was busy training.
Here are all the fun things Perry was busy doing on a sunny Monday afternoon.
Jose Perez (original bus boy): It was busy, a very, very busy day for [Overton].
Somewhere, one imagines, somebody was busy talking a group of panicked docents off a ledge.
Meanwhile, Pelosi was busy on another negotiating front trying to avert a partial government shutdown.
While America was busy electing Trump, C40 was hosting a Mayors' Summit in Mexico City.
She was busy taking sewing classes that she had persuaded her family to pay for.
He caught only some of the Academy Awards on TV because he was busy barbecuing.
The street was busy, but "I wasn't as afraid of actual street noise," he said.
Instead, he was busy adapting jazz standards, Latin music and pieces from the classical repertoire.
Richardson's right hand was busy yanking on Wilson's face mask, but no penalty was called.
"Life was busy and chaotic," Salazar, of Dayton, Ohio, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue.
When I inquired about how her programming works, she said she was busy with other stuff.
He was busy embarrassing Cheryl and Liam Payne, but the real action was in the background.
Unbeknownst to me (or the editors of this episode), my partner was busy doing God's work.
It was busy that day, and loud — hundreds of conversations, chairs scraping and banging, voices raised.
The smuggler was busy selling them a dinner of fried eggs for a few dollars apiece.
There, the UK-based artist behind the performance, Carmen C. Wong, was busy preparing the kitchen.
But before, when I playing on the LPGA, I was busy just to go say hello.
She told Newsday in 2014, she left "The View" because she was busy with other projects.
A little later into the show, McCartney was busy getting down to Skepta with pal Goulding.
"God" then told Colbert he was "busy binge-watching 'Narcos' on Netflix" and missed the election.
Was the iPhone 6 another case where reliability was overlooked because it was busy chasing thinness?
By 1997, when Amazon went public, Metallica was busy putting out Reload — short hair and all.
The first time he came to my apartment, I was busy researching something on my desktop.
And as a reporter approached, she was busy telling someone else about her stance on immigration.
Mnangagwa could not be reached for comment, and his aides said he was busy in meetings.
Ms. Dincher, Mr. Martin's neighbor, described a man who was busy and reserved but never unfriendly.
While these attributes were on display, everyone was busy looking at Michael Jordan or Julius Irving.
He was busy that day, but David Dann, head of Mind of a Genius, was there.
The defense is expected to say Manafort was busy working and trusted his affairs to others.
"Mattis was busy and not in a suitable location to talk: "No, not at the moment.
Ms. Geahan was busy pursuing various treatments for both Lyme disease and what became reoccurring melanoma.
He was busy doing something else: offering a defense of the key themes of Trump's campaign.
He said he was not free for a longer interview because he was busy counting votes.
He hadn't been on the tennis court that morning; he was busy with phone calls instead.
"Life was busy, and I was so excited for what was to come next," she recalls.
It was busy and messy and somehow Zendaya got photographed against purple, where she looked unbelievable.
I wish I was busy because then I wouldn't be looking at the Cyber Monday deals.
In mid-November, she flew to California, where he was busy with a series of meetings.
While most Americans were busy celebrating Labor Day, Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte was busy insulting their president.
Williams, who was busy hamming it up for the cameras, seemed appreciative of her dear friend's assistance.
While I was busy pumping my fist, the person next to me was jumping up and down.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO) was busy touring villages in Oaxaca, an impoverished southern state.
He said she was busy counting the election — and ultimately complied, disclosing even more information than required.
However, I was attending RoboBusiness 2016, and the merchandise floor was busy and loud, perhaps causing confusion.
I was busy; I was raising children; I was multitasking; I was doing what working women do.
He was busy doing that until after midnight—a gnarly job, because regular scrubbing sponges don't work.
Late last night, while you were off snoozing away, J.Crew was busy doing some major price cutting.
She brought (up vaccines) on the regular group and everyone was busy all day and night fighting.
Instead, he was busy frantically refreshing his Twitter feed to read the latest updates from the dispute.
I was busy on tour and some of them got put away to be dealt with later.
Needless to say, I was glad he was busy doing the wonderful and very funny Shaggy Rogers.
Germany's Merkel was busy meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday about Britain's floundering Brexit deal.
Mehdji Belizaire, a 19-year-old Warren volunteer, was busy handing out campaign buttons to rally goers.
The rapper was busy making memes of McGregor throughout 2018, then blocked the fighter on social media.
When the respiratory therapist was busy, I worked with him, too, making sure he did his reps.
Two nights later, the band was busy rehearsing its Carnival performance; the celebration is just weeks away.
That same weekend, artist Basil Kincaid was busy preparing his exhibition and performance at Hoffman LaChance Contemporary.
So, they do things like, you know, Susan was busy folding diapers at the age of 2.
He was busy getting ready to have another body part replaced: the aortic valve in his heart.
Meanwhile, on social media this past weekend, Fuller was busy apologizing for her "White Lives Matter" modeling.
Outside the stadium, which was busy with preparations for the Grammys ceremony, fans began to leave flowers.
But the morning was a hectic one on Capitol Hill, and the senator, a Democrat, was busy.
The skeptics ain't bothering Rooney though ... who was busy floating away on an inflatable raft on Monday.
He was busy watching the two couples swapping and moaning, a tangle of limbs under the moonlight.
A Reuters photographer at the airport on Saturday said it was busy before Christmas but operating smoothly.
Last week was busy and full of deadlines and I'm thankful this week is a little less hectic.
On a snowy February afternoon, the outdoor West End pool in the capital city of Reykjavik was busy.
Overstreet says that in between takes on the show's choir room set, he was busy jotting down lyrics.
Tuesday marked Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip's 71st wedding anniversary — however, the monarch was busy celebrating another milestone!
"I came [to Manila] for education, but I was busy looking for a good guy instead," Ramasamy said.
She was in school, and I was busy, and I'd go out and do a lot of yoga.
Back then, the fast-growing city in Tokyo's suburban fringe was busy with young married couples and children.
On a midweek visit the restaurant was busy but not full, and our meal was much more enjoyable.
While you were out enjoying the sun and sights here on Earth, SpaceX was busy making history, again.
But I was busy watching a mysterious woman with a green scarf dance her way through the crowd.
Reuters called the Myanmar military spokesman but an assistant said the spokesman was busy and unable to speak.
A session on weak productivity growth was busy; the many covering the implications of automation were packed out.
" She was busy "helping the pilot navigate between them, trying to see where we are and recognize landmarks.
Contacted by phone, Madrid branch manager Liu Wei said he was busy in a meeting and hung up.
This was the height of European medieval culture (Constantinople was busy getting sieged by the 4th Crusades, etc.).
The soccer superstar was busy on his other J-O-B ... pulling hot chicks during vacay in Ibiza.
He mentions that he was busy when approached about the project, but felt he couldn't pass it up.
GM Peter Chiarelli was busy in the offseason, so you could forgive him for taking the deadline off.
The most recent quarter was busy for Tilray, which expanded strategic partnerships with a number of global partners.
He also says Peter barked he was busy "working on some p****" ... when Link tried to talk business.
It struck a marketplace that was busy late in the evening after the daily Ramadan fast had finished.
She poked at Trump for doing Celebrity Apprentice while she was busy getting rid of Osama bin Laden.
"I wondered into the tattoo studio one night, and they asked me if I was busy," Chuck recalls.
I was busy at the time, so I hired an attorney, Victoria Brunner, to start researching his case.
Meanwhile, 21-year-old Josh was busy creating his character, Sidmund Bourne, and researching the best Free Companies.
Sessions' last day was busy but routine -- until Kelly's unexpected call just prior to Trump's 11:30 a.m.
Amir didn't come because he was busy, and the following day Romi left for Sardinia on his yacht.
Before all the acting, businesses, and subsequent sources of income, Graham was busy growing up in Toronto, Canada.
Apparently he was busy shopping in ASDA at the time and wanted to run a search on himself.
I discovered natural wine in 2012 and only two years later I was busy making my own wine.
The coronavirus emergency hotline he first called was busy, so he turned to a local government health center.
I was busy cashing my 80 million video game check and transferring 53 million into our joint account.
The counterprogramming, too, was busy, reflecting the throng of Democrats jockeying to be the counter-voice to Trump.
I was just one of those people who did "better" when I was busy, when I had structure.
It's been five years since he last performed, because he was busy with his other job, fixing elevators.
On Sunday, the center was busy; at noon, about 85 people, mostly researchers, had logged into the registry.
However, Perry did not attend the taping in person because he was busy rehearsing a play in London.
"There, everybody was busy with school and work, and here you have more time for family," she said.
She looked so tired and ragged all the time because she was busy working to provide for me.
Don Jr. said he knew his father was busy, and had called him only once since his inauguration.
I finally reached the subway entrance, walked down the stairs and felt relieved that the station was busy.
I think cake was served with a candle on it, I don't know, I was busy getting married.
Yesterday morning I ruined a quesadilla by adding too much salsa because I was busy revising a poem.
I was busy trying to take in all of that information in order to play the game properly.
Ms. Retzloff was busy producing and performing in a show, and trusted the pair to screen for her.
"Before, I didn't understand anything," he said, pointing at Parolil, who was busy focusing on the peregrine's feather.
They checked and it turned out that Ilene was busy doing "Empire," and Hulu had acquired the project.
"Back then everyone was busy chanting about revolution on the streets—this type of culture was criticised," he recalls.
Dallas couldn't continue because he was busy playing Prince Charming in ABC's eight-season long Once Upon a Time.
Down another alleyway, Felix grabbed a key from an elderly man, who was busy fixing an iron hammock stand.
I lived with a single mother who was busy in her own right as a two-in-one parent.
Rebecca Rescate was having her annual exam with a new doctor, and, well, he was busy doing his...job.
NUKE. While everyone else was busy mad-maxing it on land and starving out, I had a thriving civilization.
Well, she was busy trying to nail down mom Kris Jenner for some much-needed one-on-one time.
In her spare time she was busy improving her knowledge, to be eligible for a permanent government nursing job.
The downtown market was busy and bustling with children playing outside and young couples holding hands, seemingly without worry.
In that time, Glossier was busy planning the expansion of its eyebrow lineup, and that day has finally arrived.
No word if Game himself grabbed the mic at one point ... looks like he was busy working camera duty.
Cochran said that though Khan was busy during this time, he always made the time to chat by phone.
The store was busy inside, but there were no overly long queues, so people flowed in and out unimpeded.
I guess I probably should have, but I was busy searching the room for another skeptical pair of eyes.
Japan, however, was busy going backwards as the Markit/Nikkei PMI of 49.1 was the lowest since February 2013.
But ol' future POTUS couldn't get through, presumably because Key was busy trying to put his country back together.
Bill Clinton, a shopper told NBC News, was "busy looking at cheese" while everyone took photos with his wife.
Japan, however, was busy going backwards as the Markit/Nikkei PMI of 49.1 was the lowest since February 249.5.
While everyone rushed to pick him up and dust him off, he was busy tapping on his wheelchair keyboard.
The very young woman waiting on him was a tad impatient; the place was busy, the old man hesitant.
While the world was busy admiring Snowden for his courage, seven individuals risked their lives to care for him.
Three of them sold at a preview that was busy, if rather less free-spending than in previous years.
Fleury was busy early, as the Blue Jackets held a 249-2101 advantage in shots in the first period.
Mr. Guzmán-Payano said he was busy with classes on Monday, and referred a reporter to his mother. Mrs.
A week later I'd signed Unbound's contract and I was busy with the planning stages of my crowdfunding campaign.
This recalls the strategy the entire league used against Barry Bonds back when he was busy breaking the sport.
She was busy filming the kids and supporting her ex-husband, from whom she publicly split two years ago.
On Queen Street, a few blocks from the waterfront, Lese Corrigan, 59, was busy boarding up her art gallery.
Mr. Mnuchin, who was conspicuously absent from the news conference, was busy exchanging two phone calls with Ms. Pelosi.
As we entered, the crew was busy arranging mussels, clams and oysters in shallow bowls on beds of stones.
Local residents said Mr. Dowless — who is also a soil and water conservation district supervisor — was busy but available.
But even before he left Hamilton, Diggs was busy with side projects that show how truly multitalented he is.
He was busy, according to his wife and sons, at the AT&T store ordering a new phone line.
He said he was busy with meetings and work throughout the day and that helped him stay on track.
The emergency room received about 212,23 visits a year, and unlike many struggling hospitals, the maternity ward was busy.
When he wasn't in jail, he was busy reinventing his own hard-knock life into a more fabulous one.
Everton was busy that day, announcing a coup of its own: the capture of the Juventus striker Moise Kean.
But his family was busy building a world to replace the one it had lost: schools, organizations, synagogues, campuses.
Wolfmuller, who was busy helping a mother find her daughters on the tarmac, said he saw the employee return.
After a Twitter user wondered how the ad was coming along, Jackman responded to say he was busy "editing".
China sent no one, nor did Russia, which was busy conducting a meeting on Syria with Turkey and Iran.
I was supposed to meet a friend but he said he was busy so I went to my hotel.
While Bill was busy trying to (repeatedly) propose to Hillary at Yale, he said, Hillary was busy doing things to help other people and make change — like going undercover to bust illegal school segregation, registering Mexican-American voters, or figuring out why so many disabled children in Massachusetts weren't getting enrolled in school.
While Don spun his wheels, Pete threw tantrums, and Roger pickled himself to distraction, Peggy was busy getting shit done.
As industrial music was emerging in the 70s, Kraftwerk was busy in Germany laying the groundwork for electronic pop music.
Mend your breakup with some turkey lasagna, she suggested on Today last week while everyone was busy celebrating Valentine's Day.
His partner works as an organizer with Planned Parenthood and she was busy getting activists on a bus back home.
While Mr Barenboim was busy with the rehearsals, Said led discussion evenings, often quite controversial, about music, culture and politics.
Jaimie recalls how accommodating their first ward was when she was a new mother and Josh was busy with work.
The NAACP was busy then, they're as busy as they've ever been now, and their work continues to go on.
While KFC was busy touting the latest iteration of the Double Down, Chick-fil-A quietly introduced a new salad.
"I've never seen anything like this craziness," said Tamara's cafe owner Danny Itzkovitz, 2000, as he was busy grilling burgers.
" But at the time, Reynolds said he was busy "just trying to finish this charcoal sketch of The Last Supper.
Meanwhile, on another New York island, Martin was busy performing with Coldplay at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Laboratory was busy shooting the entire thing in 4K, and it just released three glorious highlight reels.
But on the day he was supposed to turn himself in in Ohio, Meehan was busy being arrested in Michigan.
Then, she was in class, he was busy with finals and midterms, and she was "swamped" because of President's Day.
While the rest of the government was busy with Russia and health care, Trump got to sit in a truck!
Downey was busy preparing for the role when a briefing book from the Bush campaign, showed up in his mail.
To combat any misunderstandings, their group was busy building a website full of information about the study and its design.
I was busy with some routine one day in the base's headquarters when a friend of mine waved me over.
The lead guide, John LeRoy, a ropy, leathery dude with a gray beard and ponytail, was busy rigging the boats.
And while the McDonald's was busy, no one was being especially loud — everyone kept talking to themselves at their tables.
That being said, nothing happens in a vacuum, and while these messages were exchanged, WikiLeaks was busy releasing hacked materials.
"I was busy, I saw an email from this person, I opened it, tried to interface with it," said Brill.
While her husband was busy starting a new business, she was by Robin's side, holding her hands, combing her hair.
Colorado was busy in advance of the trade deadline, acquiring forwards Mikkel Boedker and Shawn Matthias and defenseman Eric Gelinas.
Back then, she was busy starring on Hannah Montana, touring with the Jonas Brothers, and not wearing see-through bodysuits.
A spokesman for the army commander responsible for election security in the northeast said the officer was busy on operations.
The idea was Ann Toback's, executive director of the Circle, whose overly excited goldendoodle, Jessie, was busy jumping on guests.
And the producer's mother was busy pouring glasses of sparkling melon wine and showing guests family photographs on her phone.
Restituto Padilla, called the attack "opportunistic," suggesting that the group had struck now because the military was busy in Marawi.
According to CNN, some of the staffers volunteered to do personal chores for White because they thought she was busy.
But then after that, you know, she was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.
Aides sought to project that Trump was busy with matters of state and refused to concede he was playing golf.
Nour had offered to join us, and was making arrangements on behalf of Zahran, who was busy with a case.
TUESDAY PUZZLE — When we last saw the constructor Tom Pepper, he was busy showing us what a pro he is.
Soto assumed Cox was busy at the blast site, assessing what had happened, helping any wounded, organizing the squad's reaction.
That's why the actor failed to visit you at the multiplex last year — he was busy realizing a lifelong dream.
Besides, he was busy paddling, soaking up the sun on his face and watching the light dance on the water.
Congress was busy elsewhere on Capitol Hill: The House passed two major gun control bills after two decades of inaction.
One day, while Michelangelo was busy sketching, Torrigiano took his revenge, punching the younger artist hard and breaking his nose.
She said when she was busy building the OWN network, for instance, she didn't always make the gratitude journals a priority.
While Rodriguez, 43, was busy broadcasting for Sunday Night Baseball, Lopez took a seat in a box to watch the game.
Ultimately, the person that was in that role ended up being very overwhelmed while I was busy being a new mom.
Michael Bublé was busy promoting his ninth album, Nobody But Me, when he found out about his son Noah's cancer diagnosis.
Tom Ford, who was then designing YSL ready-to-wear, was busy making leopard-print caftans and black velvet skirt suits.
Trump's senior adviser and former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway was busy doing damage control Monday morning on various cable news shows.
But I think they thought I was busy, and then by the time it did come up, then I actually was.
But I think they though I was busy, and then by the time it did come up, then I actually was.
While the actor was busy thanking Satan for "inspiration" in playing the controversial politician, Twitter users were losing their collective minds.
After the show he was busy with the producer and director so I had no access to him to address it.
It was busy at home because I worked two cleaning jobs and had a third night job at a Sainsburys warehouse.
On the one hand, Casaleggio was busy developing the technology that would evenly distribute power across the breadth of the movement.
Mom was busy in the kitchen, and I, left on my own, was terribly bored in our tiny Mexico City apartment.
They appeared to grow frustrated as they tried to use their radios and the police frequency was busy for some time.
Top Gear was busy being Top Gear over the weekend and in the process attracting criticism for one of its stunts.
I was busy with work and running around and not having much time to eat and being in an unfamiliar country.
Interviews and text messages on her cell phone reveal Michelle was busy making plans right up until the night she died.
Elijah didn't make it to Sunday's Golden Globes, because he was busy firing up Verboten -- the new hot club in Brooklyn.
The pharmaceutical industry was busy last week, winning a key exclusion in the budget bill while getting handed a separate loss.
Cleveland, of course, was busy falling to 0-12 and having the seventh player this season attempt a pass for them.
While Season 22013 was being filmed he was busy writing Season 210, which will cover the years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership.
Mickelson, whose round of 70 was his first not in the 173s at the tournament, was busy plotting an indomitable comeback.
Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, was busy taking photos of the view with his iPhone.
RIO DE JANEIRO — The 215-meter individual medley field was chasing Michael Phelps, who was busy powering past Leonidas of Rhodes.
But while everyone was busy laughing at Trump's awkward handshake and grimace, you might've missed out on Medvedev in the corner.
At 25, I was busy groping my way out of that world into one that was more creative, accepting, and experimental.
But in the midst of all those earnest declarations, Alkaline Trio was busy throwing themselves into the realm of the occult.
One night, while he was making caramel and I was busy with prep work, I was handed a spoonful of caramel.
Long before he was busy changing cinematic history, the Bronx-born 17-year-old worked as a photographer for Look magazine.
"I was on the road half the time with my job, and Hugo was busy being a dad," Ms. Green said.
As Mr. Ward balanced his obligations, Ms. Lollie was busy traveling the state in pursuit of the Miss Florida USA crown.
As a custodian at Mount Vernon, Aracely Canales Ramos, 37, was busy on Tuesday keeping the restrooms, floors and windows sparkling.
It was a welcoming place where he, his siblings, and friends could go after school while their mom was busy working.
Across the Alps, Freud was busy delving into the ids of rich Viennese housewives using an early version of talk therapy.
And while Trump was busy hitting the jackpot, most opinion writers were dogging him for missing out on the four bucks.
As he was putting that out there, Graham was busy grilling Brian Hook, a senior State Department official, about Trump's decision.
But at some point, while I was busy figuring out ways to get the work done, I forgot about the shame.
If he was busy on the Senate floor, another senator would take Hunter and Beau to his office to hang out.
He called his clinic for help, he said, but it was busy sending out doctors to get voters to the polls.
Ludger K. Balan, one of the lead organizers, was busy setting out folding tables in the "information section" planned for visitors.
As outrage over the events in Virginia intensified, the chamber was busy tweeting about the need to act on tax reform.
Yet even as the court was hearing the case, the government was busy hurrying Mr Bashir onto a plane home to Khartoum.
Rather than sulk over not getting an Oscar nomination for Nocturnal Animals, Jake Gyllenhaal was busy grieving another actor's lack of recognition.
In the early 1700s, Peter the Great, the czar of Russia, was busy nabbing land from his western neighbor, the Swedish Empire.
My mother once called on a Sunday night in college, only to find out I was busy making my own pie crust.
By the time we arrived at the restaurant, a small army of volunteers was busy opening oysters fresh from a nearby mudflat.
Just last week, Wilson was busy celebrating her 36th birthday alongside Bella sisters, Hailey Steinfeld, Shelley Regner, Alexis Knapp and Ester Dean.
But then he explained himself and admitted he wasn't the best person in that relationship because he was busy focusing on football.
Slater was surprised to find out Scott was her partner because he had told her he was "busy" during this upcoming season.
Neary then passed the responses along to Boissonneault, who was busy scrambling to finalize the details of her wedding from her hotel.
During his first two years in power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was busy spreading the message that India was open for business.
So while Cruz was busy giving his victory speech in front of loyal fans, others took it upon themselves to drag him.
Then Biz Markie appears to perform "Just A Friend" for the entire Johnson family, because you know Jazzy Jeff was busy, right?
She and Prince George kicked a soccer ball around the field while Kate was busy chasing after 1-year-old Prince Louis.
In the TV show, meanwhile, the last time we saw Tarly he was busy falling in love with the Citadel's giant library.
When times were good, every night was busy at his restaurant, and a two-hour wait for a table was not uncommon.
When I walked back downstairs, my friend, who is the current chef there, was busy filling up gigantic bottles of brown mustard.
"I feel like I was busy raising my son, then I looked up and all this was going on," said Ms. Offolter.
When my friend opened the door and saw the woman standing there unaccompanied — her boyfriend was busy, apparently — she began to despair.
On Tuesday, Gusman said he did not want to discuss the problems because he was busy dealing with how to solve them.
To help reduce the cost of coal for Eskom, CEO Molefe said the utility was busy renegotiating its long-term coal contracts.
If you thought your life was busy, you have nothing on this cuddly cat that has two â€" yes TWO â€" jobs.
After the Arab Spring, there was a flurry of foreign interest in Arabic, and the school was busy for our first year.
The work was busy but bearable, until one night in mid-February when Abu Hamza brought an Eritrean woman from the warehouse.
If the uninvited honcho signals interest, your friend could casually suggest an assumption that this boss was busy with more important obligations.
Soon the block of East 12th Street was busy with police officers and their bosses, the car roped off with yellow tape.
He was busy reporting on the efforts to resolve the matter before the N.F.L. owners' annual meeting began in Phoenix last weekend.
That didn't happen on Thursday, however, possibly because one officer was on break and another was busy fetching toilet paper, Cannon said.
As it turned out, he was busy recording, so she picked up a cassette tape and drove back to the Bangles' studio.
Last Saturday afternoon, the designer Alan Eckstein, 34, was busy installing an interior decorating project he took on as a bill payer.
It is why, as fans gathered in central Amsterdam, UEFA was busy announcing proposals that might, essentially, make Agnelli's vision a reality.
Around the same time, Lyle was busy founding Star Waggons ... the company known for its customized trailers used in the entertainment biz.
I grabbed a hat and mask and headed to the operating room, where a small army of people was busy setting up.
And he's gone on record recently to say that he nearly missed his final game because he was busy editing short stories.
Austria had overwhelmingly voted to serve itself up to the German Anschluss that March, and was busy implementing the notorious Nuremberg Laws.
With a number of trades expected to be announced Thursday morning, Vegas General Manager George McPhee was busy accumulating draft picks, too.
I would have asked the host to help me, but he was busy entertaining his large number of guests and was unavailable.
Remember when Forrest Gump was busy rescuing Bubba from the oncoming wave of napalm that lit up the Vietnamese in the area?
Rickerd, who lives in Saline, Michigan, had just started her own content marketing business and she was busy with her first baby.
In Delaware, our economic development office, with my full approval, was busy calculating direct subsidies to corporations through grants and tax breaks.
Thenuka Karunaratne missed Hastings' keynote address as it first aired online because he was busy taking an exam in his organizational behavior class.
While Scott was off having fun, his brother Drew Scott was busy starting rehearsals for his upcoming whirl on Dancing with the Stars.
Retiring AS hot, wind-fed wildfires swirled around her town in early September, Darlene Simmons, 76, was busy cooking spaghetti in her kitchen.
Vicki Russell, who lives near the park, told The Denver Post the park was busy the night of March 17, when Dominguez disappeared.
During the spring and summer, he was busy flying around the country to talk up the administration's North American trade deal, the USMCA.
While Epic was getting its long-in-development game ready for release, another one was busy taking the world by storm: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.
Gates said Thursday he was busy with Trump campaign focus groups and promised to review AP's questions in writing, then did not respond.
The actress was busy promoting her new film, Mother's Day, in N.Y.C. Thursday, and of course she dressed the part for each appearance.
While the audience was busy trying to absorb that idea fully, Reynolds reverted back to being the stuff of swoon-worthy father dreams.
While a significant percent of his room reservations were canceled over the weekend, Mr. Borsuk said his dining room was busy Saturday night.
But while I was busy questioning whether the machine was malfunctioning, another beauty editor was zoning in on the results of my scan.
Men like John D. Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil company was busy building a monopoly on oil refining, and the railroad king Cornelius Vanderbilt.
But Sergison, an assistant at MIT Corporate Relations who moonlights as a freelance film and television writer, was busy starting the unconventional account.
However, one of their biggest clients, Jimmy Fallen, was busy over at the Beverly Hilton hosting a party of his own with NBC.  
His father was busy campaigning in Liberia—he faces a run-off on November 7 after obtaining a plurality in last month's election.
"We view this as an art piece," said Howard Gold, who was busy on Wednesday afternoon painting and fixing at the former diner.
Brady Sanders, Boyette's roommate during Texas road trips, often saw Boyette writing in their hotel room but thought she was busy with homework.
Well before the holidays, she would send him letters saying that she was busy making fruitcakes for her family and friends for Christmas.
As Catalonia's president was trying to side step a self-inflicted confrontation with the Spanish government, Brussels was busy fumbling the Brexit ball.
While Rowe was busy practicing, working out, studying film, and traveling, he watched his fellow classmates ready themselves for their post-college careers.
We spent days looking for spots, organizing and briefing the different teams, while Selina was busy practicing the drone flight over and over.
So much attention was on the transfer of power, protests, and Women's March preparations, but Washington was busy in a multitude of ways.
Trump, meanwhile, was busy tweeting about Crooked Hillary and threatening to "VETO" the spending bill, shortly before he announced he was signing it.
James was busy winning championships with the Miami Heat, and the Cavaliers stumbled along by surrounding Irving with a collection of mismatched parts.
Not that long ago, the city was busy trying to convince a court that lead was a widespread hazard throughout its public housing.
When I visited, Cathleen Buck, the wife of Ken Buck, the owner (and Joe Jost's grandson), was busy in the large back room.
Let's be clear, as fact-checker Daniel Dale was busy pointing out on Twitter, it was full of half-truths and total distortions.
A call to his home number was answered by a woman who said that Mr. Kelly was busy but would return the call.
Although the center was busy, no one working to help handle the flow seemed to think they needed help from the National Guard.
While pop culture was busy playing up the fragility of white women, black women were doing the work that needed to be done.
But Mike McKinney, the manager, said the restaurant was busy only when the Mets, the Cubs and other popular teams were in town.
It wasn't like him to go to the theater solo, but his wife was busy and he really wanted to see the play.
The night before Hurricane Sandy hit, however, they called 16 for help, but the line was busy and they could not get through.
Tria said the government was "busy drafting an answer to the European Commission with regards to the most contentious points of the budget".
While Chevy and Ram focused on that market, Ford was busy unveiling a new entry into the midsize pickup truck market — the Ranger.
I told her I was busy writing a paper, that I wouldn't be able to come see the house until the next morning.
Police said in a tweet that the incident took place in Grote Marktstraat, a shopping area that was busy with Black Friday shoppers.
It was the Friday before the Memorial Day weekend; she was busy tending to her other children, and Etan jolted out of bed.
As U.S. State Secretary Rex Tillerson unsuccessfully tried to negotiate a delay to the independence vote, Sechin was busy negotiating the pipelines deal.
It was a small guy in a tank top, who was busy tweeting on an awfully loud PC. He didn't say a word.
He said he was busy working on a few things already, but also that he felt the songs I sent him were fine.
Before Felicity Huffman was indicted as part of a nationwide college admission cheating scandal, the actress was busy visiting college campuses with her daughter.
While the Burrito Blanket was busy winning hearts all over the internet earlier this month, it definitely did not see this bake off coming.
He said he was having a hard time seeing, so we kept trying to get the parent to take him, but she was busy.
The corporation was busy trying to understand young, diverse consumers — and here I was, completely in tune with the people they needed to reach.
But like most of his neighbours in the mountain village of Wolong, 16km (10 miles) from the epicentre, he was busy tending his crops.
Sources told me in April that Robinhood was busy hiring for multiple U.K. positions, including recruitment, operations, marketing/PR, customer support, compliance and product.
So I called to cancel and it was busy for a solid five minutes and then I was on hold for another fifteen minutes.
While Ralph Waldo Emerson and other white writers were fretting about what a new American literature might look like, Douglass was busy producing it.
I met him at Noma, where the rest of the staff was busy working lunch service, sharply dressed in their starched shirts and aprons.
While everyone around him was busy raising their signs, or simply chatting on their phone, this man did decided to get loose and dance.
The only problem was, our traveler was not able to truly enjoy the view because he was busy not plummeting to an untimely demise.
While Google was busy launching 500 new messaging apps yesterday, a smaller competitor released something called Rawr Messenger, and it's a lot more unconventional.
While the rest of the world was off ringing in the New Year, Star Wars: The Last Jedi was busy crossing an important landmark.
While the Han developed and honed the imperial policies established by the Qin at home, it was busy engaging beyond China's borders as well.
DeMint was busy trying to calm down the callers who were angered that Heritage's advocacy arm helped sink Trump's first real Obamacare-repeal push.
As Gwyneth Paltrow was getting married to Brad Falchuk in the Hamptons, her ex-husband Chris Martin was busy performing in New York City.
Bill Clinton didn't take time off during Labor Day weekend – he was busy getting young voters to show up to the polls in November.
I was driving to work on the same road in Lahore that I took every day, and my mind was busy with the mundane.
The incident occurred on a warm summer's evening on the eve of a national holiday and witnesses said the outdoor eating area was busy.
In nearly 20 percent of cases, the directory included the wrong phone number or the number was busy in two calls on consecutive days.
But when she didn't respond — she was busy, I reasoned, what with being a now tenured unicorn — I began to wonder: Why a unicorn?
While others were preparing for last night's Met Gala by getting their nails and makeup done, Amy Schumer was busy re-applying her deodorant.
She emphasized my "student" strength, explaining that I would thrive in a startup environment or any place where I was busy and constantly learning.
Washington D.C.'s Flow Yoga Center realized its yoga studio was busy before and after work hours, but was empty most of the day.
Locals use the picnic area regularly — it was busy the Saturday we were there — and the boardwalk is a popular and easy fitness trail.
He was busy rehearsing the title role in "Hamlet" while also preparing for "King Lear," in which he is playing Edmund alongside Antony Sher.
I can't do it without crying about my dissolute youth, where I was busy not getting crossword puzzles published in The New York Times.
At the front of the cart, another cook was busy mortaring a layer of shredded meat onto each plate's pile with squirts of ketchup.
There were several children at the scene, which was busy because of the dance, but none were injured in the incident, according to Gonzalez.
In early May, Mr. De Francesco was busy as I sat in his hearing room and listened to Mr. Matabor tell his life story.
Ms. Green said the market, which is usually open until midnight on Saturdays and was busy with people shopping for Hanukkah parties, closed early.
The company was busy readying for Afghanistan and spent weeks in the field, conditioning with long marches under heavy rucksacks and training with weapons.
Definitely. It took me a year to discover that student loans existed—nobody told me, so I was busy working a job on the side.
He was swamped at work and she was busy trying to recapture musical glory (with old bandmate, Ben, who clearly is a big Rebecca fan).
While Kendall Jenner was busy switching hair colors with Gigi Hadid for Balmain, siblings Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian West took it one step further.
Nakano told CNN that the Japanese administration had rushed to see Trump even before he assumed office while he was busy forming a new admnistration.
Phillips was at his shop Monday morning, where he was busy answering the phone and getting congratulations from his supporters in person, including his pastor.
But while the United States territory struggled to recover, Trump was busy insulting black NFL players for protesting racism and barking about stricter border controls.
" Clearly part of the reason the old Taylor couldn't get to the phone was because she was busy studying the warfare of "Game of Thrones.
Indeed, by the afternoon in London, Corbyn's team was busy briefing reporters that the cap was one of several ideas, according to the Financial Times.
Meanwhile, YouTube was busy incubating its growing crop of "creators," usually lifestyle, gaming, or entertainment-focused personalities who made the platform a destination for youngsters.
The president, however, was busy golfing Friday morning with the manager of his money-losing golf resort in Doonbeg, on the west coast of Ireland.
"They hugged and chatted for a bit, but Jen was busy making sure all of her other guests had an amazing time," the source shares.
On Saturday, the tennis star revealed that while she was busy training for Wimbledon, her 10-month-old daughter Alexis Olympia took her first steps.
The next day at school, she wanted to meet with the school psychologist, but the nurse told her "everyone was busy," according to the suit.
Kim and at least 2 of their kids were on hand for the service, but we're told she was busy with her mission as well.
In a string of Twitter messages last year, however, Bynes told fans she was busy with school at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM).
"They hugged and chatted for a bit, but Jen was busy making sure all of her other guests had an amazing time," the source said.
The mother of one was busy on the road with husband Ryan Reynolds and their one-year-old daughter James during his Deadpool press tour.
On Wednesday morning, while the world was busy mocking President Trump for his late-night Twitter typo, a far more pressing matter came to light.
Maria* was busy and, like many of us in the Hispanic community, believed that you didn't go to the doctor unless you were very sick.
Marlon Bundo's White House debut Before news of Comey's firing broke the internet, the White House was busy introducing a new member of its family.
Bush responded with force, saying that while the real estate developer was busy building a reality TV show, his brother had kept the country safe.
It was busy buying up a bunch of robots to make these microbes for mass production of various materials during its last round of funding.
It is, however, also heartening that the person was fired promptly for doing so, and while everyone was busy at a major conference, at that.
I felt bad, because I should have walked down to the corner store to get a lot of this stuff, and I just was busy.
I was busy pretending being a very macho woman and pretending everything was fine and doing the setup, and eventually the tank just ran empty.
Having previously worked in manufacturing industry throughout the 60s and 80s, he explained it was busy at the ports and the manifold types of manufacturing.
Every night I visited Platia, it was busy; early on a Sunday evening, a cluster of patrons waited at the entrance for an available table.
Back in 2001, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was busy branding Linux "a cancer" during the height of the software giant's domination of desktop computing.
There are also good reasons why everyone is talking about this storm (except, of course, President Trump, who until Thursday afternoon was busy tweeting memes).
While millions of Americans were glued to the drama of the first presidential debate, Kim Kardashian was busy dealing with a bit of family drama.
As Georgetown Law grad Elma told me recently, she was a former Capitol Hill intern, Department of Justice clerk and was busy practicing securities law.
She recently came out to visit but, as soon as she left, I was busy thinking of where our next mother-daughter getaway could be.
Already, the room was busy with people trying to make the best of the storm that had driven them out of their homes in fear.
He discovered that the contractor hired by the landlord was busy making improvements to the synagogue but had not completed any work on the apartments.
Now, the companies that shot up to the top while Microsoft was busy fending off the Justice Department are engaging in similar anti-competitive tactics.
On the eve of the election, President Emmanuel Macron was busy in Africa and his interior minister was making tough statements about migrants, not Corsica.
During opening week, Sharif K.M. was busy working, rolling dozens of empty oil drums through the front door of a warehouse onto a flatbed truck.
Stephen Miller, the immigration hard-liner who often crafts the president's more provocative speeches, was busy working on next week's State of the Union address.
Inside, a large room full of volunteers — spanning from teenagers to 60-something hippies — was busy making calls, eating pizza, and giggling on their laptops.
At Rudy's Music, the staff was busy assisting other customers, so Mr. Pearce wandered up to the loft where the arch-top guitars are kept.
It did not help that Bernstein was busy conducting abroad throughout rehearsals and previews, so a friend, the composer Marc Blitzstein, acted as his representative.
While two dozen large men in spandex fought over a leather spheroid last night, Amazon was busy making a few clutch plays of its own.
Before putting together a dominant and MVP-caliber season with the Baltimore Ravens, Lamar Jackson was busy lighting up the ACC with the Louisville Cardinals.
As for the driver of the Ferrari, he was busy talking to cops, and later ... we saw him pull the vehicle out and drive off.
"When I met the Blue Jeans team, I was busy starting my new venture, The Players' Tribune," the former all-star shortstop tells Business Insider.
"They all got hammered, while he was busy with his accountants trying to figure out how he could keep living like a billionaire," she said.
The Dutch artist was busy sketching ideas for the New Babylon, a utopian society where man and woman were untethered from the expectations of everyday life.
My eyes would be fixed on the show, but my mind was busy elsewhere, turning over the morsels of inaccurate information I'd just consumed as fact.
It's not an accident that these statues were mostly built when the South was busy establishing Jim Crow and defending it from the civil rights movement.
The risk of being flooded is always there, and in the last couple of weeks, he was busy moving valuables to the second floor to prepare.
He's also the safety and operations director at Phoenix Heli-Flight, which was busy evacuating hospital patients and helping firefighters by dropping water from the sky.
The actress, 38, shared a video of the workout with her trainer, Nicole Stuart (who was busy sipping from her own glass of rosé), on Instagram.
While Garth was busy sipping wine and flirting with a younger man, Spelling and Green were busy taking tequila shots, reminiscing about the good 'ole days.
The made their appearance at a federal court as White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was busy distracting TV cameras at her Monday press briefing.
While Casaleggio was busy peering into the future, he was neglecting more run-of-the-mill sources of revenue that Webegg needed to turn a profit.
As Trump retweeted all and sundry during the evening, Kaine was busy firing off attacks about the Republican presidential candidate to his running mate Mike Pence.
While all eyes were on the stage during the 2017 BRIT Awards, PEOPLE was busy getting the behind-the-scenes scoop from inside the O2 Arena.
I had arrived in Istanbul a mere 36 hours beforehand, and was busy re-familiarizing myself with the city I had grown up in and loved.
"The officers asked us for help with around 30 dogs but I was busy dealing with another emergency elsewhere," Boal recounted in an RSPCA press release.
Before the Syria massacre, Trump was busy discovering the limits of governing with only his "excellent" instincts, "great" brain and far-right white base and leaders.
Throughout the early 2000s, before the rise of advanced touchscreen technology, everyone who was anyone was busy scrolling on their trackballs and BBM-ing their besties.
Over in the Netherlands, meanwhile, a young Ajax striker named Zlatan Ibrahimovic was busy making a name for himself at the high end of European football.
In the early 1970s, back when young Donald was busy running the outer-borough apartments his father had built, the city had fallen on hard times.
Instead, this quintessential 21st-century creative director was busy fitting übermodel Constance Jablonski in a gold chain-mail slip dress, while three sets of camera whirled.
Murkowski said she was busy with legislation to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and has yet to focus on the tax bill.
He was busy reading from Henry Wysham Lanier's A Book of Giants: Tales of Very Tall Men of Myth, Legend, History, and Science (published in 1922).
In the stands that day was his father, Brad Underwood, who rarely attended his son's high school games because he was busy coaching Stephen F. Austin.
As Kanye West was busy delivering sage wisdom to his thirsty Twitter followers, Kim Kardashian was quietly freaking out about one particular piece of his advice.
"Indications are she will be going for a fast time," said Jordan, who was busy lining up a competitive field for the race at Stanford University.
Not present was 22024-year-old Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt, who was busy helping with the recent typhoon relief effort in his native home of Vietnam.
I was busy meeting my deadlines, while the guy I had tried my hardest with probably matched with the woman of his dreams and moved on.
Sadly, Ross was busy getting her shoulders polished and couldn't make the dates, but luckily Debbie Harry was able to step in at the last minute.
Meanwhile, across the ocean in France, Marie Antoinette's hairdresser, Léonard Autié, was busy creating voluminous coiffures punctured by fresh flowers meant to conjure a shimmering Eden.
Reached for comment, several senior Taliban officials acknowledged this week that the movement was busy in internal discussions over how to respond to the government's offer.
But while she was busy cementing her status on the soccer field, she was quietly preparing for what would come after she stepped away from it.
We now realize the reason we never heard back is because the Smithsonian was busy working on the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, Trump was busy tweeting insults from his New Jersey golf club and campaigning in a special election in Alabama.
While Mom passed from room to room with a duster and Windex, Dad was busy outside carefully planting precise rows of red geraniums and spreading fertilizer.
While you were packing up at the end of the workday last Friday, Amazon was busy sneakily putting Apple's 249.99th-generation 232-inch iPad on sale.
Just for reference, when I was 17, I was busy crying over the complexities of trigonometry and was not being published in The New York Times.
Jake Drexler, 12, visiting from Los Angeles with his father, a gaming-industry executive, was busy solving a scrambled word puzzle on the exhibition's opening day.
He found Nona downstairs in the kitchen, fully dressed, giving orders to the maid, Lucy, who was busy clearing away the empty glasses from the party.
While Trump was busy trying to clean up in the days that followed, Putin's Kremlin started referring to military agreements he'd made during their private conversation.
When someone spilled something on the floor and the staff was busy, one of them took care of it — go in the back, get the mop.
Ms. Gordon said that the judge that day, Bahaati Pitt, asked for a reason to reschedule; Ms. Gordon offered that she was busy with other cases.
On the highest floor of the tallest building in Boston, Senator Elizabeth Warren was busy collecting big checks from some of the city's politically connected insiders.
Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLE — When we last saw Brendan Emmett Quigley, he was busy building something with tools, but today he's deconstructing in more than one way.
At the same time, he was busy posting on Twitter on topics ranging from calling for the impeachment of then-President Barack Obama to motivational quotes.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was busy most of Wednesday, but praised House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff and other Democrats on the panel for their efforts.
Now a powerful lobbyist, his phone had been buzzing nonstop and he was busy helping to organize a briefing Thursday morning for dozens of corporate clients.
Mr. Erdogan said there was no need for a meeting, since he was busy and Mr. Bolton had met with his Turkish counterpart, Ibrahim Kalin, anyway.
But phone records obtained by investigators show that she was busy dialing numbers from her phone, and witnesses say she dismissed the urgency to her subordinates.
Daryl L. Osby, the county's fire chief, said that the Creek Fire had been reported overnight, as his department was busy fighting the fire in Ventura.
I would be working in a pub, sneaking away when it was busy to send him nudes from the cellar, surrounded by cobwebs and exposed wires.
The boy looked across the playground toward Kelly, but she was busy brokering a time-share deal between two archrivals over the class's only Malibu Barbie.
Not because she was busy making the rounds of the media, but because according to Colbert, talking to Conway was "like staring into the mouth of madness."
Even though the bar was busy, and guarded by private security, nothing prevented the group from pulling the young woman from the dance floor by her hair.
While he was busy penning scripts, he developed a hobby of baking cookies as a way to deal with the stress and anxiety of being a writer.
Kate (Chrissy Metz) wound up clashing with sister-in-law Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson), who was busy clashing with the bachelorette-party-crashing Randall (Sterling K. Brown).
While the team behind Modern Warfare was busy digitally recreating bin Laden's death, the U.S. managed to kill the next figurehead that replaced him in our consciousness.
During the gap of more than a decade, he was busy transitioning to his nursing career, but he was also writing the prose poems in this book.
We first reported that Monzo was busy assembling a U.S.-based team over five months ago, and the U.K. company made its U.S. plans official last week.
"I knew what that meant," Wells said of the invitations, adding that he began cooling things down with Wenner by declining invitations, telling Wenner he was busy.
Kamala Harris on his 1975 Senate bill opposing federally ordered desegregated busing, former Vice President Joe Biden was busy defending his record in front of black voters.
Meanwhile, White was busy reporting on Scottish wedding fairs, and coming out with innuendos so atrocious that watching them back makes us howl, and howl, and howl.
Stormy Daniels is flaunting her multitasking, and that's not a euphemism -- she was busy stripping in Detroit Tuesday night, while still keeping the pressure on President Trump.
On Monday night, the reality TV personality tweeted that she was "busy cashing (her) 80 million video game check", and transferring $53 million into a joint account.
While Lionel Messi was busy sulking after his penalty kick choke, Team Chile was RAGING IN THE LOCKER ROOM ... celebrating with Bud Lights and golden trophy pics!
But when Emma tells the other women about Jesse's hurt feelings, they confess to Jesse that they assumed he was busy with his classes at law school.
Clinton sought to turn her attention to the general election, Mr. Trump, who had a weekslong head start, was busy reckoning with problems of his own making.
Before they began dating, Ms. Leggero said, she was "a serial monogamist"; Mr. Kasher said he was "busy, romantically" (by which, he added, he meant "very promiscuous").
In the 1980s, while Iran was busy directing its proxy militias in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia helped the country reach a historic agreement to end its civil war.
Nadler was busy sending out more than 22019 letters looking for more investigative material at the same time he knew Mueller's report was about to be delivered.
In 2015, as Browder was busy promoting his book, he expounded on the Katsyv case in television and radio interviews, but was reluctant to testify in court.
President Donald Trump publicly marked his wife's birthday not with a tweet, but by telling "Fox & Friends" he "didn't get her so much" because he was busy.
I waited for an additional 22015-213 minutes and then [redacted] came and said that the manager was busy and if I preferred to speak to him.
"It's still Bushwick; shootings happen sometimes still," she said of the area, which was busy around the time of the shooting with people coming home from work.
I was asked to be in Shaun of the Dead, but I hadn't wanted to do it, or I was busy with something else—I can't remember.
In the days leading up to the tour, Khalid was busy DMing fans who couldn't find tickets to his sold-out shows, getting them in a priority.
Melendez told CNN that they initially called the White House and were honest about their identity, but the White House said Trump was busy and hung up.
Rachel Nyirarvshisha, 36, had spent the night fishing, and that morning, she was busy cutting deals on her sambaza at the Projet Pêche fishing cooperative in Kibuye.
That was partly because she was busy building a small business, tending to my younger siblings and accommodating the bizarre demands of a brilliant and bipolar boyfriend.
Her husband, Leonardo Medina, a retired distribution worker in the pharmaceutical industry, was busy chopping fallen trees outside their home when they were visited by a reporter.
"Monuments are created by executive order," said Mr. Knox, who was busy welding a beam on a tractor that had snapped while his wife was cutting hay.
He said he had no intention of leaving Cambodia, and was busy running his family's nongovernmental organizations, which include a hospital and a charity that builds schools.
Mr. Trump's running impeachment commentary came on a day when much of Washington was busy preparing for the trial, only the third such proceeding in American history.
The entire model was situated in one of the company's cavernous buildings in Las Vegas where Bigelow was busy pitching his expandable habitat to reporters like me.
He was busy trying to line up support for his bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, focusing on how much it would help reduce the deficit.
A shooting near New Orleans's French Quarter left 11 people injured early Sunday, as the city was busy with fans attending the annual Bayou Classic football game.
Nearby, her team was busy preparing for the unveiling of her latest collection at London Fashion Week on Monday, to be accompanied by the pianist Michael Nyman.
Meanwhile, on the internet, every single brand was was busy rolling out their April Fools' Day pranks that they'd spent far too much time and money on.
"When Regis [Philbin] left, the person Kelly wanted more than anyone else was Anderson Cooper, but he was busy launching his own talk show," a source tells PEOPLE.
The years progressed and I was busy doing other things, and I realized that everything I've ever written in the last five years, it's been the same thing.
Cut to two years later when I was busy creating my production company and looking for scripts, when my rep was approached about my negotiating to stay longer.
Imagine this group of liberal-leaning writers trying to crack the story for a new Roseanne series while Trump was busy tearing the U.S.A.'s reputation to tatters.
While West was busy releasing a song about his (alleged) Christian Mingle habits, Thompson was ejected from last night's Cavaliers game with just 2.6 seconds on the clock.
At the time, the duo was busy with their careers — including new movies in the works for both — which is why they hadn't settled on a wedding date.
At the same time its chief Mondrian expert, Hans Janssen, was busy writing a new life of the artist, "Piet Mondrian: A New Art for a Life Unknown".
While O.J. was grappling with mortality in the back seat of a speeding vehicle, I was busy being 17 years old, on my way to a Metallica concert.
A construction crew was busy working on an identical home a few doors down, and the dust from their jackhammer floated towards me and my late-afternoon snack.
Facebook footage of the sweet incident showed little Jude crawling back and forth in front of the camera unbeknownst to his mother who was busy practicing her poses.
Remember how he was busy throwing paper towels and only touring one of the wealthiest towns in the island, without even meeting Puerto Ricans in low-income areas?
She took to Twitter to share a message revealing that while she was busy training for Wimbledon, her 10-month-old daughter Alexis Olympia took her first steps.
"When Regis [Philbin] left, the person Kelly wanted more than anyone else was Anderson Cooper, but he was busy launching his own talk show," a source told PEOPLE.
While Wolf was busy jabbing D.C. and media elite mercilessly (as you can see in the video above), Donald Trump was doing his Donald Trump thing in Michigan.
But as Joey leaned hard into making one of the most well-rapped albums of this year, KAMI was busy taking his melodies further down the rabbit hole.
We didn't know he had so much influence that he could lock in key staff that early, without fanfare, while everyone was busy trying to get Obama elected.
Lively was busy celebrating another holiday this week: the Gossip Girl actress curated a Galentine's Day party as part of New York Fashion Week to celebrate female friendship.
The demo was crude and former Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey was busy nerding out over graphic textures and the VR future that the Rift headset would unlock.
But, while Kelly was defending his behaviour, the internet was busy gif-ing and meme-ing 4-year-old Marion during the family's appearance at a press conference.
Maria Rose Belding, on the other hand, was busy developing Means Database, which matches organizations, businesses and individuals with extra food to food banks and food rescue organizations.
As U.S. sanctions on Iran entered into force on August 7, Tehran was busy playing host to the foreign minister of the ultimate rogue nuclear regime, North Korea.
What happened The streets outside Melbourne's iconic Flinders Street Station was busy with commuters and shoppers Thursday when witnesses said the SUV plowed into people crossing the street.
Project Cassandra's success proved its undoing — as the Obama administration was busy negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran, going after Hezbollah, Iran's proxy in Lebanon, became increasingly impolitic.
Since Jimmy Kimmel was busy, Dash took it upon herself to do a DIY take on "mean tweets" reading some of the strongly worded comments aimed her way.
I was busy writing up something else, when I saw a commercial break, feeling like it was OK that the Spurs were up 43-20 at the half.
The writer of the email responded to a reply email on Sunday by saying that he (or she) was busy with a work deadline and could not speak.
The students were in finals week and the coaching staff was busy setting up the next season, but they all remembered me and were happy to catch up.
But yesterday was also a day because while I was busy at a phone event, the rest of the Verge was absorbing and writing about more monumental happenings.
A sister with a disability, who lives in a nearby apartment complex, still had power on Wednesday, but Ms. Pistey-Lyhne was busy trying to make contingency plans.
The traditional main stage was busy too, as usual, because who doesn't want to hear from Marc Benioff and Evan Spiegel, as well as watch the Startup Battlefield.
The oligarch was busy telling everyone that the assassins had really been sent to eliminate him but must have failed and seized the chance to poison Litvinenko instead.
Then he phoned Down Street and told his secretaries to be on high alert for the assassin's arrival and to tell anyone who called that he was busy.
Wordplay TUESDAY PUZZLE — When we last saw Bruce Haight, he was busy convincing himself that the alphabet only has seven letters, but today he mixes us all up.
In her 259th-floor apartment on the East Side of Manhattan, on a recent Saturday afternoon, Barbara Roston was busy explaining that she was definitely not a thief.
Backstage Beauty Report Backstage at the Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini today in Milan, the makeup artist Tom Pecheux was busy preparing models for an Elizabeth Taylor-inspired look.
While the city of Boston was busy crying for Big Papi ... the Cleveland Indians locker room was TURNIN' UP ... celebrating the ALDS sweep with champagne and beer baths!!
Henwick told Entertainment Weekly that she was busy in New York filming Netflix's "Iron Fist" when she got a call from both showrunners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
When he wasn't heaping scorn on various groups, Trump was busy inadvertently undermining his case that there's an emergency at the southern border warranting a national emergency declaration.
Add to that all of the stuff that came out before I was born or missed while I was busy doing something else, and that list is absolutely insurmountable.
And as news of the romance made headlines, Hadid was busy soaking up some sun (in a bikini you definitely want to buy before spring break) in the Bahamas.
I contribute extra to the tasting server's tip — all four of us put in some cash — she was on top of things and pleasant even though it was busy.
Soon after Stormi was born, Jenner got right back to business, promoting the launch of her brand new new "Weather collection," which she was busy planning during her pregnancy.
At the Hotel Vermont, CBS's John Dickerson was there to interview Sanders for "Face The Nation" -- while Bloomberg's John Heilemann was busy setting up cameras for his own interview.
She also shared a shot of her pre-game field moment on Twitter, explaining that her sister missed out on the fun because she was busy "sewing costumes" backstage.
If anything, I'm sure they were commended for being fierce and tactical, while I was busy worrying about coming across as a brat and not getting my fair share.
Adun, like other members of the group, was busy digging -- looking for a possible way out -- when some of the boys thought they heard the sound of people talking.
Another team was busy trying to clear the main road to Kandahar Province, which had remained blocked for a week because of Taliban mines and check posts, officials said.
Though Facebook was already wildly successful, Zuckerberg was busy defending his public image after an unfavorable portrayal in the film "The Social Network," which was released that same year. 
REUTERS - In 2016, Aditya Dhar was busy prepping for his directorial debut which was to star Pakistani actor Fawad Khan when militants stormed an Indian army base in Kashmir.
Lawyers for the city tried to block the court appearance, arguing that Mr. Emanuel was busy at City Hall and had no "actual and unique knowledge" of the case.
I was busy shaking in the corner of my little bunker, trying to calm my panic, while rumors about the shooter and the victims arrived by text and Snapchat.
In remarks in October defending the camps, a top official in Xinjiang, Shohrat Zakir, said the government was busy preparing "job assignments" for inmates formally finishing indoctrination and training.
One thing it did not feature, however, was Steven Spielberg, who offered creative input on the concept but was busy directing Amistad at the time of the location's opening.
The UAW's boss, Gary Jones, was busy this week hammering out a four-year labour contract for them, starting at GM, before the current one expires on September 15th.
A few years before Olivia Colman was scooping up a (very well-deserved) golden statue for The Favourite, she was busy putting David Tennant in his place in Broadchurch.
In February, while North Carolina was busy beating Notre Dame, Virginia and Louisville (and losing at Duke), Gonzaga was drubbing middling opponents like Santa Clara, Pacific and San Diego.
"He was in his office, chairing meeting after meeting, with the citizen protection minister, the interior minister, the mayors; he was busy coordinating the operation," one government official said.
Missing from Shayk's side was boyfriend Bradley Cooper, who was busy working in post-production on The Joker in Los Angeles and couldn't fly in in time for the event.
As the passengers took their place in the vehicle, equipped with the BMW open mobility cloud, a Segway parking robot called Loomo was busy at work parking a returning car.
While the political left was busy ridiculing President Trump's decision to cancel the summit, North Korea immediately backtracked – like a bully who retreats when his target stands up to him.
She addressed the news in a tweet, explaining that there were no disagreements between her and the company, rather, she was busy and had other things to focus on. Fair.
Karlsson registered team-highs with nine shots and 24:13 of ice time in his first game in an opposing sweater against his former team and was busy right away.
LOS ANGELES — This past May, a small team was busy putting the finishing touches on the new home of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Los Angeles's Highland Park Neighborhood.
Sansa has observed the way Westeros' most masterful politicos operate for years, while Jon was busy being such a terrible Night's Watch leader he was stabbed to death for it.
Who hasn't felt the heartbreak of waiting for someone to text you back, and going on Instagram only to discover that the person was busy liking photos of Jeff Goldblum?
While the rest of her family was completely preoccupied celebrating the youngest member of the family, Kylie Jenner's twentieth birthday, Kourtney was busy soaking up the sun and relaxing overseas.
If Trump truly didn't see any of the Londoners protesting him, it might have been because he was busy meeting with Queen Elizabeth II or having tea with Prince Charles.
Karrada was busy at the time as Iraqis eat out and shop late during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which ends next week with the Eid al-Fitr festival.
But while the 6 God was busy winning everything in sight, there was a woman in the crowd quietly suffering from extreme physical discomfort without so much as a peep.
While Vogue was busy singing Kim's velour-clad praises, they failed to see that the real person responsible for this resurgence is not her, but rather her trend clairvoyant husband.
While Rebecca was busy covering her shift at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, David sent over a picture showing William in his car seat as they prepared to run errands.
I didn't see him down in North Carolina the last few days helping out, lending a hand, but I'm sure he was busy doing something important besides just tweeting lies.
While the next band on stage was busy sound checking their saxophones, the Bam Bam backstage street food party continued with a vegan burger from the café Mikuna in Aarhus.
Even though he was busy destroying postwar alliances and praising autocrats, it was nice to have President Trump away from the United States for a week, especially away from Twitter.
For example, the company was able to boost its security clearance to better suit the terms of the JEDI contract in April, while Oracle was busy running its legal campaign.
When Latoya resisted—she was busy looking for a new job—her friends warned her that the school might call child-protective services if she couldn't pick up Seth promptly.
Back in D.C., he was busy trying to get permission to extend the time immigrant children can remain detained with their parents beyond the current legal limit of 20 days.
Rosenstein, his boss, has testified he knew nothing about about these contacts, so it remains unclear for whom and why Ohr was busy trading notes with Steele about the investigation.
"My sister didn't really like the poem very much because Anne was very critical of her, because she left school early, whereas Anne was busy all the time," she said.
Apparently, he was busy with a book, music, and documentary series called Sekret Machines that's aimed at saving the world from outer-space invaders — which he refuses to call aliens.
On a dreary afternoon in late November, inside a cavernous former shipworks at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Michael Zaragoza was busy dipping shredded burlap sacks into buckets of gritty plaster.
While Tom Brady was throwin' bombs to his new teammate, Antonio Brown ... Rob Gronkowski was busy ass-shakin' to some Backstreet Boys in an epic dance-off with his GF!!
PHILADELPHIA — On Thursday morning, as the Carolinas braced for the winds and water of Hurricane Florence, President Trump was busy responding to the storm that devastated Puerto Rico last year.
Had I not turned the note into my great white whale, perhaps I would have noticed that, at 11, Sophie was busy growing up as a beloved daughter in America.
A columnist for the Los Angeles Times wrote that Bryant told him he didn't go to see his former team much anymore because he was busy with his daughters' schedules.
Teigen, who was not featured or named in the special, was busy preparing for her daughter Luna's first day of school on Monday when she heard news of Trump's outburst.
Mr. Boslet asked a friend, who was busy cleaning the streets with a snowblower, if he would take a picture of him holding a shovel as if he were working.
Because he was busy dealing with "escalating political and legal threats" from the Pentagon, he said, he agreed to meet her the next day in a nearby park at lunchtime.
Our mother was busy enough trying to keep up with us and with the housework; perhaps it wouldn't matter too much that we hadn't managed to learn it from her.
Baldwin opened this weekend's episode of the longtime NBC variety show as Trump, who was busy taking meetings with a range of people, including 'SNL' alum Jason Sudeikis' as Mitt Romney.
While Odom was making a name for himself in the NBA in the late 1990s, Morales was busy raising their young family at their New York, Miami and Los Angeles homes.
Meanwhile, Markle's boyfriend Prince Harry was busy with work of his own in London on Saturday as he attended a rugby match between England and Scotland alongside his aunt, Princess Anne.
Doug Collins was busy calling the Bulls-Celtics game (which was great, by the way) as his son made history, but they still got a chance to briefly talk about it.
The actress was spotted shopping for a wedding dress in Los Angeles at the time, while Cooper was busy working on projects such as Alias, Kitchen Confidential and Failure to Launch.
The problem was, as I was busy gearing up for what would become the greatest photograph I have ever taken, my lobster roll was being eyed as prey by local foul.
Svensen tricked the family and friends into thinking she was alive by allegedly telling them she was unable to come to the phone or return their calls because she was busy.
Kylie was busy on the deck with Stormi doing a photo shoot for her IG. Travis was definitely down for some fun, though, ripping down a water slide into the Mediterranean.
And even at this time last year, I was busy writing a disbelieving meditation on the topic of Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Note 8 and how it crossed past the $13,000 mark.
While my coworkers were out taking "real" lunch breaks, I was busy toiling away at my desk, eating Sesame Crusted Arctic Char and Truffle Grilled Cheese like a real company man.
While many eyes are on the rocket Kim just launched at Taylor, SpaceX was busy sending a payload up to ISS and and trying out another experimental landing of a rocket.
And then last month, in a comical final note to the entire affair, Twitter announced that it was abandoning the verification project indefinitely because it was busy working on other things.
When she was busy shooting Claws, she posted an Instagram about just how much she missed her husband while away from home — and it seems like she could not stay away!
The Moon in Capricorn was busy early this morning, challenging wild Uranus (at 3:20 AM) and logical Mercury (at 5:13 AM) and creating an erratic and stressed-out vibe.
Run by Club Soda—which describes itself as a "mindful drinking movement"—the festival at Spitalfields Market this past weekend was busy with people trying various types of alcohol-free drinks.
While Apple was busy trying to get pricey iPads into classrooms, Google had a different plan: It was sneaking into schools low-priced, secure Chromebooks, which cost about $299 a pop.
While Donald Glover was hosting Saturday Night Live on, well, Saturday night, LeBron James was busy doing what it is LeBron James does: hitting buzzer-beating game-winners in the playoffs.
Meghan, who wore a khaki green V-neck linen midi dress by Lisa Marie Fernandez, held Archie beneath the shade of a tree, while Kate was busy chasing after Prince Louis.
While the rest of the world was freaking out over President Donald Trump's mysterious Twitter typo, Pete Souza, President Obama's official photographer, was busy thinking up his next troll of Trump.
His opportunity to be radically honest about Facebook's problems probably passed years and years back — when he was busy working hard on his personal challenge to wear a tie everyday [2009].
No one else was hurt in the incident that took place in the Penilee district at the start of the day when it was busy with parents dropping off their children.
Most recently, Chopra Jonas opened up about Jonas' sweet gestures in the days leading up to their wedding, during which she was busy filming her recent film The Sky Is Pink.
On Thursday the hermit kingdom was busy celebrating the 75th anniversary of the birth of Kim Jong Nam's father, Kim Jong Il, with almost everyone oblivious to news of the assassination.
While Mr. Trump's personality-driven campaign was lean on policy, Mr. Muzinich was busy overseeing a team that cranked out detailed proposals for Mr. Bush on taxes, education and health care.
The worker, however, was busy filling out forms and only paying half-attention to the conversation, so she kept obeying the AI and saying "I'm sorry," much to the caller's confusion.
Cayne joined the crucial call late, because he was busy playing bridge at a professional tournament in Detroit, according to reports at the time by Fortune and The Wall Street Journal.
While the intruder was busy firing five bullets into my 72-year-old grandmother's chest and abdomen, the store owner retrieved his own handgun from beneath the counter and killed him.
While the Frieze London preview was busy, there was a distinctly more subdued atmosphere at its sister fair Frieze Masters, which presents a "crossover" mix of works ranging across 6,000 years.
Lyle attended 15 straight Old-Timers' Day games, then only one in the last 17 years — mainly because he was busy with the Patriots as manager and now as manager emeritus.
Everyone around him was busy placing their shoes, jackets and belts in bins -- but when he had to place his Golden Globe on the belt ... Ramy had to record the occasion.
He was busy entertaining Chinese President Xi Jinping in the south of France and assembling European leaders with Xi this week in Paris to discuss a joint approach to global warming.
On one side, the steady accumulation of facts and the flipping of Michael Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser, who was busy following instructions and trying to make nice to Russia.
Last year, Rihanna was busy focusing her energy on Fenty Beauty, and the makeup lovers thank her for it, but there's still not a sign of music in the immediate future.
Colorado was busy at Monday's trade deadline, acquiring forward Mikkel Boedker from Arizona and defenseman Eric Gelinas from New Jersey, but their debuts were spoiled by a 220-23 loss at Minnesota.
Melendez told CNN that his team first called the White House and was honest about its identity, but the person who answered the phone said the president was busy and hung up.
And even as GM's EV1 team was busy building the car, GM's lawyers were lobbying hard, side by side with the other big automakers, to get California to back off its requirement.
NBA baller Jabari Parker wasn't worrying one bit about free agency on Sunday ... he was busy having the time of his life supporting the league's float at the Pride parade in NYC!!
By the time I came around to shooting this, he was busy developing Creed, and he's pretty much been busy ever since, but we run into each other every now and then.
At the time, Getty was busy expanding his oil empire into Saudi Arabia, and despite knowing his son was going blind from the tumor, he was rarely at home with his family.
She could choose to take a cue from her predecessor, Michelle Obama, who was a frequent partner to the wives' of leaders her husband was busy meeting with in the West Wing.
"A book about my life wasn't something I thought much about while I was busy living it — now I know the difference between life and living," he told PEOPLE in a statement.
Yesterday, when most of us were gearing up to see if Jamie Lannister was still alive, a Reddit user named makenna1636 was busy putting together an impressive Game Of Thrones-themed dinner.
The lawyer was busy setting up a meeting in Manhattan with Trump's top campaign officials, including his son Donald Trump Jr; his son-in-law, Jared Kushner; and his campaign chair Manafort.
I started to explain that the article was going to appear in the newspaper, but she was busy collecting a debt for the local women's lending collective and had no time talk.
While we were waiting around in vain for pictures of Taylor Swift's annual Forth of July blowout, Khloé Kardashian was busy making memories with her own squad of famous family and friends.
He was the guy who took me places when my boyfriend was busy, and when my boyfriend went away to school, Rick and I had a friendship that was just on fire.
While I was busy looking at how precariously her glass of rosé was resting on the edge, Shelby is grabbed and almost drowned in the tub by an unknown pair of hands.
Read MoreThe future of TV: 800K watch a watermelon explode While Live Video was busy stealing the spotlight, Facebook quietly broke out some new features aimed at small business owners last week.
While mom Kate Middleton was busy with royal duties at Wimbledon, her kids Prince George and Princess Charlotte were stealing the show at a local summer festival in Berkshire with their grandparents.
So it was fitting that on June 7th, while Mr Trump was busy fighting—or basking in—the scandal over his latest remarks on race, Mr Ryan was launching a policy paper.
Perri asked for the delay because his law partner, Brian McMonigle, was busy with a high-profile sexual assault case against comedian Bill Cosby that is taking place in a Philadelphia suburb.
One late autumn morning at his outdoor studio, his lead artist, covered in the white dust of sawed marble, was busy with the headstone of a 22-year-old police officer, Cmdr.
"A book about my life wasn't something I thought much about while I was busy living it — now I know the difference between life and living," Travis, 59, tells PEOPLE via email.
Because I was busy doing that, I missed the December 22nd release of the music video for Kendrick Lamar's "crucial love song," and am just now experiencing it for the first time.
Cameron was busy in New Zealand working on the sequels to 'Avatar' in late July when 'Avengers: Endgame' (Disney/Marvel Studios) finally eclipsed the original Avatar (Fox) and its $2.79 billion benchmark.
Meanwhile, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg was likely enjoying a warmer public perception in 2010 — even if he was busy challenging his depiction in "The Social Network," which was released in theaters that year.
My father was a solitary drinker, but our house was busy with children and resentment, so he would venture out and find places where they fill your glass and ask no questions.
He was busy last week inspecting naval assets, exhorting his elite marine troops to get ready to defend China and exchanging messages of "strategic coordination" with his real friend at the Kremlin.
While the US went after ISIS and "actually achieved lasting gains for the Syrian people, the Assad regime was busy bombarding civilians in places like Aleppo, Idlib and Eastern Ghouta," Currie said.
Rob's also blasting BC for claiming to be concerned about Dream's safety when she was busy posting a video showing Dream on her older's back while they were bouncing on a trampoline.
In the days leading up to when Harvey hit, I was busy following the rules, but like most Texans, I was pretty sure the situation was being, well, overblown by the media.
When my fury subsided, I sat down at the kitchen table and started making a plan to earn money on the side while I was busy learning how to be a mom.
In addition, Mr. Rubin, who was supposed to be the driving force behind the products, seemed not fully engaged because he was busy dealing with his personal matters, the former employee said.
"This is going to be a Christmas comet," said Michele Bannister, an astronomer and expert on small bodies at Queen's University Belfast, who said she was busy writing proposals to conduct observations.
As Mr. Trump seethed, the president's re-election campaign was busy raising money off the threat of impeachment as he and the White House tried to turn the tables on the Democrats.
On December 30, while everyone was busy posting aggressively filtered pictures of themselves from both ends of the last decade, Hasbro Toy Company completed its $3.8 billion acquisition of Entertainment One Ltd.
" A few hours after taking leave of Macron last Wednesday, Xi was busy hosting a large delegation of parliamentary leaders from Nordic and Baltic countries seeking "high-level exchanges and deeper cooperation.
Carney, who was busy fielding questions from the press on Thursday about the BoE's decision to keep interest rates on hold at 0.5 percent, is the central figure in determining British monetary policy.
While Cardi was busy fighting off criticism, Gaga was soaking up her sixth-ever Grammy win for best pop solo performance, best song written for visual media, and best pop duo/group performance.
On Monday, while Souza was busy with the pretend president, the real president made unintended headlines when he reached for First Lady Melania Trump's hand, only to have her visibly swat it away.
While one senior administration official said this week that the White House was busy preparing a tree-planting target, another noted that the $4.8 trillion budget issued Tuesday did not mention the plan.
While much of Taylor Swift's squad was busy getting a lot of media attention (and Instagram Likes) at her East Coast bash, Kendall Jenner was having an equally enviable long weekend in Cali.
Earlier this year, the two were spotted canoodling in Cannes while Kourt's ex and father of her three children, Scott Disick, was busy churning the rumor mill about his relationship with Bella Thorne.
"I was busy doing a screen test for a film with Kevin Costner," was her excuse when she met up with Minor in a Miami studio two weeks prior to the Super Bowl.
Gordhan's lawyers said in early March that he had missed a previous deadline to respond to the questions because he was busy preparing the national budget, and would respond at a later date.
My friend who I'm visiting has lived there for about 5 months, and knew I was busy with moving, my first year of grad school, and work so she planned pretty much everything!
While I was busy navigating my own life, all around me a movement was emerging of brave young DREAMers who were risking everything to come out of the shadows and tell their stories.
" Because he had yet to hit it big, the Bravo star recalled, "I would tell friends I was busy just so I didn't have to go out or spend money I didn't have.
On Saturday night, while many of us were binge-watching The Crown, Kim Kardashian was busy documenting the next big thing to hit the MUA world since Beauty Blenders: her daughter North West.
Since Braison was busy sealing the deal with McBride, it is unclear whether he made it to the family's party to celebrate Miley's 26th birthday with her other siblings, Noah and Trace Cyrus.
Geller, who had previously referred to President Obama as "the jihadi in chief," was busy explaining to a rapt attendee how the flood of desperate Syrian refugees into Europe were doing ISIS's bidding.
Mr. McGahn, the official said, was busy at the time juggling the Supreme Court confirmation process for Neil M. Gorsuch, the selection of appeals court judges and the vetting of numerous cabinet nominees.
On Thursday night, Donald Trump was busy at a rally defending waterboarding — but the parents of U.S. Army Captain Humayun S. M. Khan were busy in Philadelphia sharing a different kind of message.
The app has been in the works since the Obama administration was busy deporting more people than any president in history, but the recent raids motivated its developer to pick it up again.
I've been following him for the best part of two years now, and long before he started promoting his musical comeback, he was busy posting selfies in the gym, commandeering the #EatCleanTrainDirty hashtag.
"While most of the country was enjoying Thanksgiving with their family and friends, the InSight team was busy making the final preparations for Monday's landing," said Tom Hoffman of JPL, InSight's project manager.
And Attorney General Jeff Sessions was busy giving interviews insisting "we never really intended" to separate families, even though Sessions ostensibly used family separations to deter people from crossing into the United States.
While Matt Lauer was busy collecting his $20 million a year salary — even as he reportedly harassed women and sent one to the hospital — his female coworkers were forced out of their jobs.
In the additional nine minutes of footage, Kerl and another officer are shown trying to use their radios to call for medics and backup, but the police frequency was busy for some time.
Over the weekend, while San Juan's Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz was busy trying to bring more attention to the people still suffering after Hurricane Maria, Trump took to Twitter to personally criticize her.
Villaraigosa "took L.A. to the verge of bankruptcy because he was busy promoting himself and cashing in with courtside Laker tickets and other illegal gifts," said Dan Newman, a spokesman for Newsom's campaign.
As Theo was busy constructing a Lego fire station over the weekend while in the hospital for chemo, legislators in Washington were furiously working to slash health coverage for kids exactly like him.
So while people on TV Thursday morning were talking about how surprising it was that Trump had yet to respond to Pelosi, the President was busy in his lab cooking this gem up.
After Tuesday's announcement, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that Dr. Ashkin, who turned 96 last month, would not be available for comment because he was busy with his next scientific paper.
And she was busy, preparing two volumes of her notebooks from the 1960s and a graphic novel called "Man Into Wolf," whose title comes from a 1948 book about sadism, masochism and werewolves.
"We've been through it before, so we know how to prepare," said Grand Bahama chocolate shop owner Amanda Ormerod, who was busy storing paperwork, covering machinery and eating her perishable ice cream sandwiches.
Back in L.A., he was busy preparing for simultaneous art showings in Dallas and in Los Angeles; he had also agreed to create a sculpture for the exhibition Desert X, in Coachella Valley.
With him in the booth was John Kerswell, the Met's operations director, who was busy communicating with people onstage to test each microphone and would later spend the night at Mr. Frost's side.
The show proved to be a huge success, but a managerial headache, and that's why Mr. Ryan, who was busy running his caravan company, Jayco Australia, recruited Ms. Pavlovic to oversee the animatronics.
As the royal made an enchanting outing on Wednesday to a Christmas tree farm, her mother Carole Middleton was busy putting the finishing touches on her own Christmas tree about an hour away.
That's according to Asus, which was busy investigating its Radeon RX 5700-series graphics cards' reportedly hot temperatures when it discovered that adding additional pressure to the heatsink could cool those GPUs down.
While Hicks was busy fighting the crisis of the day at the President's side or meeting with her lawyers, Schlapp stepped in to lead the communications team, sources told CNN earlier this month.
Taylor Haulsee, a spokesman for Senator Lamar Alexander, a Republican from Tennessee, said on Friday that the office was busy fielding a high volume of calls from constituents with opinions about the nominees.
But while he was busy expounding to the various nations assembled in the UN's grand assembly chamber, Iran's president Hassan Rouhani was busily making the rounds, schmoozing New York's media and diplomatic elites.
The day after fixing up the PKK base, the whole team was busy sweeping out a burned-out house, filling wheelbarrows with charred home furnishings, and clearing the broken glass from window frames.
Reached by telephone Wednesday at the West Virginia home of David Turpin's parents, his mother, Betty Turpin, said she was busy preparing paperwork and entering information into a computer to help her son.
While she was off becoming the Duchess of Sussex, the internet was busy obsessing over an old photo of the former actress as a teen tourist posing in front of Buckingham Palace in London.
Nacho Figueras was ready to share the trophy for winning the Sentebale ISPS Handa Polo Cup on Thursday with his teammate, but Prince Harry was busy planting a smooch on new wife Meghan Markle!
The newly-appointed Duchess of Sussex was busy meeting-and-greeting several guests at the British Ambassador to Ireland&aposs residence on Tuesday when she allegedly broke a major rule: don&apost be political.
While President Obama was busy explaining to Americans why his executive orders to curb gun violence are necessary and long overdue, Donald Trump offered some counter-programming at a campaign rally in Burlington, Vermont.
While his mother, Tasha Watkins, was busy at work, she didn't want her boy to miss out on the rare occasion, since the last time measurable snowfall hit Florida was about 30 years ago.
Little did I know that my entire Discord horde was busy buying founders' packs that grant you extra boosts, designing their little Lego-like houses, buying cute clothes, and upgrading weapons in MapleStory 2.
On Thursday, she was busy filming her Bravo spinoff, Vanderpump Rules, at her restaurant SUR and was later honored by the city of Los Angeles for her advocacy and commitment to the LGBTQ community.
On Wednesday night's The Real Housewives of New York City, basically everyone who left John Mahdessian's party was in the wrong – except Dorinda Medley, who was busy telling everyone else how wrong they were.
Rubio's victory speech — which he actually delivered in Miami before his win in Minnesota was announced — was not even aired on CNN, which was busy covering victory speeches being delivered by Trump and Cruz.
Using methods of appropriation and costumed self-portraiture associated with the Pictures Generation, Gonzales-Day was busy in the close of the 20th century stacking dynamite at the door of the white art canon.
While a Cincinnati Bengals fan was busy peeing on someone else in the stands, Martavis Bryant of the Pittsburgh Steelers was on the field, making the most mind-boggling catch of the NFL Playoffs.
While the political press was busy lamenting that Mueller didn't break character and accuse the president of impeachable crimes, it missed the news: Mueller, in his own way, underscored the case for Trump's impeachment.
"Nope …" Frustrated with the fact that he was busy and I couldn't do this right now, he decided to postpone the ticket buying until tonight so we have the option to change our minds.
Johnson had just started working as a curator under Alfred Barr at the newly formed Museum of Modern Art, and was busy preparing what would be a groundbreaking exhibition on the new International Style.
Now I was pretty embarrassed but kept giving my all, as my ex was busy cheating on me and my daughter was just a toddler, I knew I had to endure for her sake.
Last year, the USDA temporarily fell behind inputting data on infections of the virus because it was busy responding to an outbreak of bird flu in poultry, an agency spokeswoman told Reuters in October.
Read Bun B's latest dispatch from New Hampshire But though everyone was busy making promises about how well they'd do in the primary vote, the actual primary vote proved almost all of them wrong.
WARSAW — When President Trump visited Warsaw in the summer of 413, the Polish government was busy setting up a transformation of the nation's judicial system in ways that critics found deeply troubling and undemocratic.
Far from Honduras, the White House was busy grappling with the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist whose death inside a Saudi consulate had tarnished Saudi Arabia, a vital ally of the Trump administration.
Mr. Powers, an author and senior fellow with the World Policy Institute, walked past the Eiffel Tower sans his new bride, and when he phoned her, feeling romantic, she was busy in a meeting.
Instead of spending the weekend before the online shopping holiday recovering from Thanksgiving dinner, Lil Bub's owner Mike Bridavsky was busy making sure his website was ready for the onslaught of traffic expected Monday.
When I spoke to Tellez on the phone, he was busy fielding orders for the Day of the Dead's signature pan de muerto, a sweet roll brushed with egg wash and dusted with sugar.
We got the 2020 candidate Thursday at his Donald Glover X Andrew Yang pop-up merch shop in Hollywood, where Andrew was busy getting mobbed by a huge throng of supporters chanting his name.
Last year, Cassie Kelley was busy renovating a 1930s traditional home in Nashville that she and her husband, Lady Antebellum singer Charles Kelley, had purchased as an investment property to flip and re-sell.
While Weusi was busy consulting with activists and politicians, like Al Sharpton and David N. Dinkins, the former mayor, it was up to Pamoja to pass the game on to his brothers and sisters.
While Elon Musk was busy planning how to launch his Tesla Roadster into the depths of space last month, a hacker was silently using Tesla's computing power to mine an unknown amount of cryptocurrency.
While Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle were all anyone could talk about in 2018 thanks to the wedding, their pregnancies, and rumored feud, Princess Anne was busy putting 👏 in 👏 the 👏 work👏.
According to what he told TPM, the little Führer's routine involves a lot of TV. When the outlet called him, he said he was busy catching up on the second season of the Handmaid's Tale.
I, too, was busy and realize this post is a bit late, but I don't want to live in a society in which the statute of limitations on possible extraterrestrials is less than a week.
Because while Rick and Morty fans "f*ucked around and wasted your life" for the two and a half years between the two seasons, Mr. Poopybutthole was busy not only recovering, but building a family.
So after years of pushing off these trips because she was busy with work, she picked a couple of weeks in February and booked a trip that will take her to Texas, Virginia and Minnesota.
She was busy promoting Gone Girl, and even scored a nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the Oscars, where she wore one of the greatest red column gowns ever.
At first, Barbara, who lives in New York, and Coyne, who was based in Los Angeles at the time, had trouble connecting, in part because Barbara was busy promoting her book with Jenna, Sisters First.
The last time that happened, the league&aposs 213 teams included ones in Cincinnati, Baltimore, San Diego and Seattle -- and Bill Russell was busy leading the Boston Celtics to their 228th championship in 22014 years.
As the spacecraft's scientific instruments collected data on Jupiter's interior and its magnetic field, JunoCam was busy snapping images of cool cyclones and weird dark splotches that the public had selected through an online portal.
The Real Housewives of New York City star, 52, entered Room 407 at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach while a maid was busy completing a turn-down service that night, according to the report. .
Haruto-san said that he was busy with meetings, so I ended up having dinner with Yu almost every night for the next two weeks, always at one of the North Korean restaurants in town.
Because as you were getting your precious shut eye, Kim Kardashian was busy breaking the Internet yet again, but this time with a choice series of Snapchats instead of with pictures of her bare bottom.
So when the industry wasn't busy denying this obvious evolutionary threat, it was busy doubling down on many of the dumb ideas that caused the public to sour on their product in the first place.
Winner, In General: Iris Apfel We thought the 94-year-old was busy enough with her full roster of spring fashion campaigns, but she not only attended Paris Fashion Week, she took it by storm.
Back in 2016, while the United States was still celebrating the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage the year before, Jordan was busy trying to shut down the Arab world's first LGBTQ online magazine, My.Kali.
My dad was shipping out and I was busy with everything someone in their last year of high school is normally busy with — studying, applying to and visiting colleges, worrying about leaving behind friends, etc.
As the bodies were cleared and surviving victims -- doused in water and the noxious chemicals -- were cleared away, Assad was busy declaring victory over the suburb which had become the last rebel stronghold around Damascus.
In the months leading up to his sentencing, Gamble told me he was busy with school, spending time with his mom, and working to find and report vulnerabilities in websites as a white hat hacker.
We all watched The Who perform from the side of the stage (literally on the stage, about 50 feet away from them), and Sting was busy massaging my shoulders while we all enjoyed their performance.
When the Mandalorian was busy fighting some bad guys, the show paused to let us know what Baby Yoda was up to, and it turned out he was eating a frog that made him sick.
He saw a little too much of the Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams than he should have at a time when the party's paramilitary wing, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, was busy bombing English cities.
As Mr. Jobs was busy upending the personal technology industry, Ms. Powell Jobs founded College Track, which helps underprivileged youths get into college, and Emerson Collective, an umbrella organization for her philanthropic and business interests.
I also felt like I could barely make a dent in a savings account for most of my 20s anyway, as I was busy paying off debt and trying to find a decent-paying job.
Ahead are the best DCOMs that have been unleashed from the Disney vault, what I think they're about based on their posters, and what actually went down on screen while I was busy watching Nickelodeon.
In 2005, Sebastian Thrun was busy building a driverless car at Stanford to prepare for a race that would eventually lead to him being hired by Google to head up their most ambitious "moonshot" projects.
WATCH: Prince George's Cutest Moments And when Kate was busy with royal duties at Wimbledon last weekend, Prince George and Princess Charlotte were stealing the show at a local summer festival in Berkshire with their grandparents.
Variety had earlier reported that Roku was working on far-field voice control — a feature found on voice-controlled smart speakers like the Amazon Echo — and was busy hiring staff into a "center of audio excellence".
The week that BuzzFeed News tried to catch Ehrhart at work, he was busy making calls to Sam Olens, the KSU president, to complain about cheerleaders who had knelt during the national anthem at a Sept.
At first, Barbara, who lives in New York, and Coyne, 36, who was based in Los Angeles at the time, had trouble connecting, in part because Barbara was busy promoting her book with Jenna, Sisters First.
Besides, without their failed attempt at succession, we wouldn't get that shot of the duo stealing all of Pyke's best ships while Euron was busy appeasing the Drowned God; a smash-and-grab at its finest.
While all eyes were on Pink's gravity-defying performance and the audience was cheering on BTS at the 2017 American Music Awards, PEOPLE was busy getting the behind-the-scenes scoop from inside the Microsoft Theater.
While the rest of us were on the edge of our seats, screaming at Betty through the TV screen to stop playing with fire and go straight to Sheriff Keller, Reinhart was busy thinking about Domino's.
Back in 2016, when Meghan and Harry had just been dating for a few months, Harry made a secret trip on Halloween to visit his then new-girlfriend in Toronto, where she was busy filming Suits.
While Kendall was busy serving the finest in jort fashions on the red carpet, Kourtney's been spending her holiday predominately aboard various boats with her new beau Younes Bendijma and the requisite comprehensive wardrobe of swimwear.
It's a sharp contrast from last autumn, when the restaurant's calamari fisherman was busy hauling sea-soaked asylum seekers to dry land, and waiters turned tables into makeshift hospital beds for shipwrecked survivors treated for hypothermia.
"The president was busy basking in the warm glow he no doubt feels when the cameras are rolling, when he is center stage, and a famous person is praising him to his face," Cooper also said.
Mattis, who officially retired from his four-star general post in 2012, received a phone call when he was busy volunteering at the Tri-Cities Food Bank in Washington, shortly after the 2016 US presidential election.
Etienne Delpech, a broker with Bordeaux Sotheby's International Realty, which has the listing for this house, said the first half of 2017 was busy for his agency, with homes selling quickly and usually at asking price.
And even though the 1988 Summer Games were in Seoul, he didn't have the time to watch them on television, since he was busy delivering pizzas in New Jersey to pay his way through English classes.
I then remembered an anecdote she had once told me and I shared it with her: When my father was a newborn, Doris rocked him in her arms while their mother was busy with household chores.
Ms. Todd was busy that night: She had attended a planning and zoning meeting at Marfa City Hall, had a late dinner at the Hotel Saint George and was driving back home to nearby Fort Davis.
"I kept calling and trying to ask her out and all she kept saying, over and over again, was that she was busy," said Mr. Haro, 28, a vice president at Capital One in New York.
Over the past week, when the breakdown of some containment measures became known, Trump was busy replacing his director of national intelligence with an unqualified political hack who will also simultaneously serve as ambassador to Germany.
Who: Brad Fisher, technical manager for "The Daily" What: Apollo 11 in Real Time, an interactive time machine of the first moon landing On this day in 1969, the Apollo 211 crew was busy making history.
The Knicks shot 39.3 percent in the first quarter while JaVale McGee, the Warriors' fill-in center with Zaza Pachulia still nursing a right wrist contusion, was busy throwing in alley-oop dunks on consecutive possessions.
I was busy cutting clips, detaching audio and moving things around (I even tried to add a soundtrack, but more on that later) when I realized that I had somehow screwed up the video and audio synchronization.
Hale had said she nearly turned down the role when it was first offered to her because she was busy raising three children and doubted the viability of a TV series built on long-winded courtroom scenes.
New York (CNN)Mike Walsh was busy trying to manage his doomed software company in 2009 when he agreed to take a 15 minute meeting with a little-known figure in the tech industry named Ryan Graves.
" Gaston, who often apologized for Getty's behavior, admitted to PEOPLE, "I was very unhappy about that, but I did everything I could to make Timmy be happy and realize his daddy was busy working to satisfy him.
Days before a married couple with a passion for Instagramming their world travels fell hundreds of feet to their deaths at Yosemite National Park, Drea Rose Laguillo was busy taking a selfie at the same cliff's edge.
The circle closed further, she added, when the manhunt identified a "specialist in the construction of tunnels" who was busy adapting safe houses in several places, seemingly reaffirming the drug lord's trust in underground methods of escape.
But while you were playing around with that squiggly, colorful text, Microsoft's team was busy honing another tool that has since been deemed by Investopedia as "the most important computer program in workplaces around the world": Excel.
Back in 2016, when Meghan Markle and Harry had just been dating for a few months, Harry made a secret trip on Halloween to visit his then new-girlfriend in Toronto, where she was busy filming Suits.
While South Korea was distracted all through 2017 by its presidential scandal, the US president was busy rattling all the sabers he could find at North Korea as the Hermit Kingdom attempts to develop its nuclear weapons.
Sources sympathetic with Michael said he was busy with one of Uber's massive financings and also a giant deal in China with rival Didi and was not told and did not realize how sensitive the files were.
When HBO's miniseries Chernobyl premiered in May, Heimark was busy tooling away, designing a cake in memoriam to the worst nuclear accident the world had ever seen, one with rampant, lasting environmental repercussions and devastating health effects.
Last August, Donald J. Trump was busy igniting a feud with Megyn Kelly, getting under Jeb Bush's skin and flying around the country to thrill his supporters with promises to build a wall on the Mexican border.
While Republicans spent their time and money talking about Pelosi, she was busy orchestrating the resources, mobilization and message discipline that threw the GOP majority into a headlong retreat from their votes on taxes and health care.
Our troubles worsened when the doctor called and told me something while I was at work, but I didn't understand and was in the middle of something, so I said I was busy, could he call back?
At the same time the supermarket vigilante was threatening refugees in the street, a German politician named Alexander Gauland, a deputy with the anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland party (Alternative for Germany), was busy picking another fight.
When they last spoke a few weeks before her death, Ms. Trott told her friend she was busy with work for clients, a new line of pet products and a poetry book she was writing about dogs.
A unit of the company had built the first offshore wind farm at a place called Vindeby off Denmark in the early 323s, and Dong was busy populating the shallow shoals of the North Sea with turbines.
BIARRITZ, France, Aug 26 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump was absent from talks on climate change and biodiversity at a G7 leaders' summit on Monday, with host President Emmanuel Macron explaining that Trump was busy holding bilateral meetings.
In one photo, all three of the Christina on the Coast and Flip or Flop star's children pose underneath the Christmas tree as Taylor snuggles up to her baby brother, who was busy letting out a wail.
Read more: Italy put 12 towns on coronavirus lockdown after 215 cases and 5 deaths made it the most-infected country outside of AsiaShe tried to call the number she'd been given, but the line was busy.
When Efron was busy filming Hairspray in '06 and '07, Seeley stepped in for him on the High School Musical: The Concert tour and is featured on the live recording with the rest of the movie's cast.
This time, he was busy in the Delray Beach Open final, where he held off Dan Evans to capture the title, 3-6, 6-2190, 26-2100 (213), and earn $219,212, the biggest payday of his career.
Much like the characters of Amy Poehler's directorial debut, which hits Netflix May 10, I was busy clinking glasses with my friends, sampling lots of wine, and getting day drunk in a chic and therefore socially acceptable setting.
One of the flag-holders was busy telling a gay man why he should prefer Trump to Clinton, which gave the other man––an Israeli––the opportunity to tell me in broken English that he was getting paid.
The man seated in front of me was busy texting someone to let her know that he would not be bringing her to the Vanity Fair Oscars party, though I hear it might not be that great anyway.
RAIGAUN, Nepal (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On a recent summer morning, Suntali Rai was busy counting and stacking zinc sheets as she prepared to lay them on the roof of the house she had started building a month earlier.
We haven't really seen all that much of Robby, but somehow while Chad was busy eating lunch meat, Robby managed to fall completely head over heels for JoJo and he wants to shout it from the mountaintops, literally.
The Raptors posted a 99-84 home victory over the Cavaliers on Saturday, when they limited Cleveland to 35.4 percent shooting from the field while center Bismack Biyombo was busy setting a franchise playoff record with 26 rebounds.
While she was busy destroying the competition at Wimbledon, some people thought it was appropriate to body shame Serena on Twitter, claiming that the sight of her nipples through her top were a huge distraction to the sport.
Most people have the event on their radar for months leading up to fashion's big night out, but Bey had just given birth to daughter Blue Ivy a few months before and was busy rehearsing for The Mrs.
Gomez, 24—who was busy traveling around the world for her Revival World Tour earlier this year—"wasn't in a good place emotionally" before she cleared her calendar for the rest of the year, says a Gomez insider.
The public defender for You said he knew he had to turn the protection system back on but failed to do so because he was busy communicating with other coordinators about a separate problem with the train's speed.
Pete Ricketts, a Republican, initially said he would not meet the president at the airport because he was busy, but after being criticized, he reversed course and greeted Mr. Obama on the tarmac of Offutt Air Force Base.
But when not playing with her two adorable children on the beach, the reality star was busy reliving every collegiate spring break moment she ever missed out on, even entering in a wet t-shirt contest of one.
In the run-up to the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, he was busy crafting a monumental hanukkiyah, a candlestick with nine branches that is used during the eight-day festival that starts this year at sundown on Sunday.
On the morning of May 25, 1979, Ms. Illuzzi said, Etan saw an opportunity: His mother was busy taking care of two toddlers; his older sister, who often walked him to the bus stop, was slow getting ready.
Prince Andrew said he was busy on the day he has been accused of having sex with a 20193-year-old, telling the BBC that he was at a Pizza Express, and stayed home with his children after.
While our Bachelor was busy dodging feuds in the mansion, former contestant Bekah Martinez and her boyfriend Grayston Leonard posted the first photo of their new daughter, and Bravo host Andy Cohen welcomed his son Benjamin via surrogate.
In 1990, when the team again needed to age down, Steinbrenner was busy fighting a lifetime ban—not that that year's particular example of an in-season redo was to anyone's credit, as we'll see in a moment.
I love "Herzog" (1968), but I don't know that Saul Bellow ever went as passionately and profoundly into Jewish American themes as Roth did (in part because he was busy going so passionately into countless other things, too).
I considered surreptitiously opening the file with my earlier notes, but I was busy taking new ones as they told me how information on nonbinary gender identities had been hard to come by just a few years earlier.
Fans were disappointed to discover that Paulson wasn't part of the ninth season of the Emmy-winning show, but her absence was likely due to a scheduling conflict; the actress was busy filming the limited drama series Mrs.
Michael Caine wasn't around to accept his first Oscar win in 1987 for best supporting actor in "Hannah and Her Sisters," because he was busy filming "Jaws: The Revenge," a movie with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
I'd always heard about "Buffy," but was busy raising my kids and didn't really watch TV. When I saw a clever YouTube spoof poking at the lack of feminism in "Twilight," called "Buffy vs Edward," I was intrigued.
Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, at a party meeting, called Mr. Conte "a part-time prime minister" — and added that he was perhaps missing cabinet meetings because "he was busy studying for a legal English exam these days."
"Some of the best memories of my life have been in the water — and none more special than the days I spend swimming with Boomer," Michael said while his son was busy stealing the show and eating the microphone.
WHEN JOE WENT TO HAWAII WHILE NICK WAS BUSY FILMING Because one of the biggest perks of your brother's acting career taking off is getting to fly to exotic locales to "keep him company" while he's away from home.
Soon, the quest to get a set as good as Kat Von D's will be easier than ever, because the artist announced via Instagram that she was busy creating packaging artwork for the upcoming launch of her brow collection.
While GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina was busy captivating a group of people on Monday in a busy cafe in Manchester, New Hampshire, ahead of the state's primary on Tuesday, an unidentified woman continued to enjoy her breakfast, unfazed.
Cooper was without his plus one from the Golden Globes, girlfriend Irina Shayk, who was busy with work in Moscow; instead, Cooper walked the carpet with his mom Gloria Campano (who received a hug from Gaga inside the event).
" Even though Aniston invited her ex-husband, 55, to the bash, she "didn't really pay any special attention to Brad," the source explains, adding that "Jen was busy making sure all of her other guests had an amazing time.
"The best husband ever.. A #lambily member's dream came true… Even through he was busy and we were apart, he made sure I celebrated our one year anniversary w my fave!" she captioned photos and videos from Carey's show.
On a Wednesday in late September, Ms. Spurlin, 28, was busy preparing a vegan curry squash tart whose richness came from a mix of coconut milk and creamed cashews, for a tasting with some of the restaurant's staff members.
In 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi was busy developing a hydrogen bomb at Los Alamos National Laboratory, but he still found time to contemplate the universe when he wasn't working on one of the most destructive weapons ever built.
Co-owner and head baker Herb Glaser, 65, wearing white cotton pants and an apron streaked with frosting, was busy icing birthday cakes and glazing black-and-white cookies, but stopped whenever a customer walked in to wave hello.
Ms. Bauman already has made a spreadsheet with all the tickets her group has amassed, and on Monday afternoon she was busy trying to pair up friends with friends, and children with their parents, wherever groupings of tickets allowed.
The president had no public events on his schedule for Wednesday, but was busy tweeting on a variety of topics, including praise for the United States, Mexico and Canada for winning the bid to host soccer's 2026 World Cup.
"But while my heart was completely fulfilled, my mind was busy in the cockpit of the fastest, most beautiful fighter aircraft in the world, as I was responsible for its safe journey to the R.A.F. pilots who needed it."
Wordplay MONDAY PUZZLE — When we last saw Dan Margolis, he was busy matching up men and women, but today he returns on ... I wanted to say a stallion, but he has brought in all sorts of equines, hasn't he?
HASAKAH, Syria (Reuters) - Two weeks ago, 27-year-old Leith Ahmed was busy studying English and Arabic at school in northeastern Syria when a sudden Turkish cross-border attack forced him and his family to run for their lives.
Trump was busy flexing his midterm muscles in West Virginia on Tuesday, where he invited the Republicans Senate nominee Patrick Morrisey to join him on stage and warned his supporters of the consequence of a "blue wave" in November.
In the lobby, where decades-old Melegatti television commercials played on a loop (they featured scantily clad Native Americans or primitive-seeming Africans, all enraptured by pandoro) the secretary was busy referring inquiring customers to the on-site shop.
So when we caught up with her while she was busy promoting a new cause close to her, speaking to women about their birth control options through the #NoHormonesPlz campaign, we wanted to know what she does on her down time.
Eventually Apple pulled the tweet and Cook and the company never referenced it, but I couldn't shake the feeling that while Apple was busy talking about relatively minor updates and partner news, they had temporarily lost control of the core narrative.
It took me a couple of years after the diagnosis to start looking into a prophylactic mastectomy and reconstructive surgery; I was busy going to business school and was in a rotational program after that put me in different cities.
Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), was not in Infinity War because he was busy headlining Ant-Man and the Wasp, which came out a few months after Infinity War but takes place right before or during the events of Infinity War.
On the same day fellow 'Jackass' star Brandon Novak told us he's concerned over his buddy's drinking habits, Bam's lawyer was busy submitting legal docs informing the court that Bam was ahead of schedule with the terms of his DUI sentence.
Yes, while Uncle Sam was dozing on its unique superpower laurels, lulled by the "end of history" fairy tales, his rising-sun partner was busy producing what America wanted to buy and consummating, with gusto, the economic conquest of Asia.
But he lamented that in Apple's infancy he had passed up an opportunity to do design work for the company's co-founder Steve Jobs because he was busy with other projects in Europe and did not want to move to California.
Sofia's son launched his modeling career last year in December with a Paper magazine spread inspired by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's films; he's also starred in a Head & Shoulders commercial with his mom (no word if Manganiello was busy then, too).
Reality Check: Clinton was 'busy giving speeches' to banks during financial crisis, Sanders says Kevin Liptak, CNN Sanders hammered Clinton for giving speeches to financial institutions, suggesting they had influenced her decisions on how to respond to the financial crisis.
He ran away, and Rebecca and the baby walked back to the Volvo in chummy quiet as they did, now, mornings, because Christopher had gotten that job after all and was busy at the bank, a place she'd never been.
Eric Kennedy, 4chan raid participant: I spent a lot of college on 20113chan, so I can say with precise certainty that I saw the emo Facebook game post on a Tuesday night while I was busy not doing my stats homework.
According to the SEC, the three California men engaged in insider trading based on information Munakash misappropriated from a friend who served as a GSI executive and was busy meeting with private equity firms and eBay about a potential deal.
While I was shocked and swimming along in the ocean, he was busy laughing at me telling me to "enjoy the water" before I managed to return to my ship and no-scope him in the face with the game's musket.
While at the event, she revealed that Kim — whose battle with addictions and recovery played out on the hit Bravo show — was doing well, but was busy living her life and spending time with her 1-year-old grandson, Hucksley.
In April, a source told PEOPLE that Ripa "wanted more than anyone else" for Cooper fill her former co-host Regis Philbin's spot in 2011, but he was busy launching his own talk show (the short-lived Anderson) at the time.

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