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Porter Robinson & MadeonBecause Crosby, Stills & Nash were busy.
While the humans were busy slaying each other, biodiversity flourished.
Residents said the kiosks were busy with soldiers buying khat.
But both were busy with theatrical projects at the time.
Others were busy criticizing every word and parsing each phrase.
They have been called on ... Well, they were busy. Yeah.
While you were busy watching Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs.
The police there were busy with New Year's Eve festivities.
On Monday, options on both Home Depot and Lowe's were busy.
Reagan and his allies were busy integrating the Goldwaterite grassroots right
COMAC officials said its two C919 planes were busy flight testing.
Pro-choicers were busy playing defense and fending off new restrictions.
Philadelphia-based law firms also were busy on the acquisition front.
But already hundreds of workers were busy making cookies and cosmetics.
"Everyone seemed like they were busy, together, doing things," she said.
While most people were busy enjoying their Sundays, Donald Trump and one of his deputies were busy tweeting glaringly false and misleading information about North Korea — and publicly humiliating his own secretary of state for good measure.
Options were busy with 150,000 contracts traded, at twice the normal pace.
But alas, we were busy learning Algebra and reading poetry in school.
And Friday nights were busy so there would be a big queue.
Men were getting ahead while we were busy watching our waist lines.
Although the Reds and Indians didn't play Thursday, both teams were busy.
In Greenburg, crews in boats and Humvees were busy with rescues, Martin said.
It was about 73:30 PM when I arrived and they were busy.
Meanwhile, officials in Palm Beach County were busy counting vote-by-mail ballots.
They were busy signing up staffers and volunteers for shifts at the shelters.
Some customers were busy taking videos of themselves and others buying the glasses.
And those advisers he does have were busy trying to outmaneuver each other.
Mama and Sophie were busy picking flowers, when they heard a terrible scream.
The stores were busy but moving quickly and happy for the extra business.
Most were busy patting one another on the back for a job well done.
"When someone had a pool party, I'd say we were busy," Anderson tells PEOPLE.
While congressional leaders were busy negotiating, the president was still sounding a defiant note.
Workers were busy dismantling machinery and hauling it away, preparing for the building's demolition.
By late 2015, the Kiwis were busy working on a radical new boat design.
Elsewhere in the country, other movement leaders were busy pushing forward with their plans.
"We were busy the whole night — a lot of people got tattooed," she said.
Mr. Mankoff said that mosques were busy on Friday evenings, rather than on Sundays.
On Saturday they were busy rebooking flights and paying for extra nights in hotels.
They were glad to see that the kids were busy and having a good time.
Turns out Swedish authorities were busy, but not with arresting perpetrators of international terrorist attacks.
It was a lucrative time to be buying, and investors across the city were busy.
Once you got to the White House and you were busy governing, then... AXELROD: Right.
We were busy right off the bat and we've grown every year since we've opened.
If you were busy watching Beyonce and Coldplay jam, don't worry: We got you covered.
While both calls and puts were busy traders appeared to be leaning toward bearish bets.
I was an only child, and they were busy saving the world from capitalist greed.
While Meng was in the air, Ratoo, Nuo, and Leon were busy drawing up plans.
"We were busy, we just weren't putting out full-length records," explains drummer-singer Spunt.
On the hill behind the festivities, some of the townspeople were busy preparing the feast.
If you were busy this week, here are some great stories you might have missed.
Elsewhere in Washington, House Republicans were busy with last-minute negotiations on their tax plan.
We were busy taking care of our girls and just doing our regular everyday responsibilities.
Americans who were busy making plans for spring and summer trips are also thinking twice.
For Jonas Mekas, who was weakened by a blood disorder, the last days were busy.
Outside, Filipinos of all ages were busy tying palm fronds in preparation for Palm Sunday.
They didn't know how to make money ... Because you were busy doing the big shows.
I didn't know that they were busy ... I didn't mean to interrupt them with their jobs!
She understands that the authorities were busy but wishes desperately that they had alerted her sooner.
We were busy over the summer with basketball tournaments, traveling and getting Miles ready for college.
"We were busy with those two, but we knew we wanted a big family," Joey says.
Image: U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionUS border agents near Nogales, AZ were busy this past weekend.
While Bey belted out "Love Drought," and "Sandcastles," fans were busy bowing down to their goddess.
I politely tried to get out of that request, stating we were busy and making excuses.
"When you left crying at the finale, we were busy filming season 3," the note continues.
While Kate and William were busy competing, they remained under the watchful eye of Kate's parents.
Lunch times were busy because we were the kind of place that served good, simple food.
The severity of her injuries could not be confirmed because doctors were busy treating new cases.
By late Thursday, United spokespeople were busy spreading the news that tomato juice is coming back.
That is an extra week of focus for Iowa while the Hawkeyes were busy dispatching Rutgers.
Our lives were busy with the inevitable commotion that forms the basis of any marriage today.
That's while you were busy talking to a very, very small number of people in Iowa.
While investors were busy watching the rally in splashy FANG names, smaller internet players have surged.
I can't imagine someone transitioning while they were busy with a career in the physical sense.
In the beginning, her patterns, all of which originate with her paintings, were busy and exuberant.
Inside, about 50-75 volunteers were busy making calls, filling out paperwork, and excitedly milling about.
Frantic rescue efforts were hampered by limited heavy equipment, and police were busy dealing with looters.
Even as they struggled to absorb the federal warning, schools were busy making their own plans.
We were busy on food policy at the Food and Drug Administration during the Obama years.
While humans were busy domesticating dogs, the ice entrapped millions of microscopic organisms per square inch.
Perhaps our East Coast readers were busy shoveling their driveways and sidewalks — not that we're complaining.
"If you were busy and you forgot to do it, you would lose coverage," she said.
While most Americans were busy celebrating Labor Day, Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte was busy insulting their president.
Traders and steel mills in China were busy finding alternatives for coking coal, Reuters reported on Monday.
While you were busy thinking about The Bachelor finale, something terrible happened: Cameron Diaz retired from acting.
The markets were busy preparing for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which begins next week.
Many other businesses and buyers were busy signing purchase agreements throughout the exhibition halls and country pavilion.
That came as brokers were busy this week fixing ships to load in the middle of August.
The following morning, both "Fox & Friends" and its No. 1 fan were busy rewriting the immediate past.
On a recent afternoon, Ms. Meynell and Ms. Crockett were busy planning the Jack Wills tie-ins.
It was our fifth and final year in Egypt, and we were busy with research outside Cairo.
The two guards who formed the checkpoint I had just walked past were busy performing random searches.
Some patients have been found dead in their rooms while doctors were busy helping others, they said.
"We were busy, just browsing, non-essentials, people buying stuff like TVs and hoverboards," the employee said.
Myrtle Beach hardware stores and supermarkets were busy ringing up sales of bottled water, plywood and generators.
Here's some of what we saw as Election Day unfolded: • People behind hoax Twitter accounts were busy.
Empowered employees didn't schedule time off when things were busy, regardless of how much they'd been working.
White flight accelerated; the streets that were busy in the downtown area emptied out after 21957 p.m.
The attackers were not immediately killed because security forces were busy evacuating patients, the defense ministry statement said.
The hospital's director, Dr A.M.S. Weerabandara declined Reuters' request to interview Shafi's direct colleagues, saying they were busy.
But behind the scenes, Los Pepes' members were busy planning how to take over the Colombian drug business.
While Kate and William, both 37, were busy competing, they remained under the watchful eye of Kate's parents.
While many were ringing in 2016 with booze, some startups were busy landing their next round of financing.
Didn't you say you were eyeing Nick Diaz for UFC 206 because all the other middleweights were busy?
Meanwhile, Jon Snow and Sansa Stark were busy with their The North Remembers door-to-door canvassing operation.
But people were busy skimming copies of Mr. Yang's campaign book — and doing some math of their own.
While most candidates were busy wooing powerful religious groups, he declared being "open" to legalizing same-sex marriage.
Many of his friends in Hollywood were busy writing and selling screenplays, but very few ever got made.
Nearly two-thirds of those were for no good reason such as they forgot, were busy or travelling.
It was called La Comida and at the counter three women were busy plating sandwiches and mixing cocktails.
All your friends told you they were busy, so you're sitting at home, alone, mindlessly scrolling through Instagram.
During the decades that Northern Ireland's paramilitary violence garnered worldwide attention, most people were busy making ends meet.
"When he was too dirty and we were busy, we wouldn't let him come in," one waiter said.
While my mom had sent me there under their care, it was clear Brian and Zinn were busy.
Those actions took place around the time when both men were busy connecting Giuliani with officials in Ukraine.
But he rejected as unsatisfactory their explanations that they were busy on other aspects of the Russia investigation.
As with any storm, National Weather Service offices across the country were busy providing detailed forecasts and updates.
It seemed filmmakers were busy shooting on every street corner, frantically churning out what were then called home videos.
Instead, mainland companies were busy repaying loans in Hong Kong in order to have the SBLC up north cancelled.
Today, as we sipped our much-needed Monday morning coffees, two java giants were busy finalizing a massive deal.
Crews of neighbors were busy cutting the huge trunks into manageable sizes and dragging them free of the wires.
Click here to view original GIFWhile you were busy celebrating the holidays, NASA dropped the hottest mixtape of 2016.
With temperatures dropping by the day, a dozen keepers were busy catching the zoo&aposs 20 pelicans on Monday.
The e-commerce giant and Google were busy cutting deals to get their virtual assistants into other firms' products.
At a time when Dean needed them the most, it seemed they were busy grieving in their own way.
However, outside of classes they were busy importing smartphones from Hong Kong, which turned out to be fake iPhones.
In the days afterward, residents were busy scrambling to prepare for the holy month of Ramadan, which began Thursday.
Presumably, one would not be planning a publicity appearance if they were busy finding love as TV cameras rolled.
While landlord groups were busy pummeling Prop 10 with one hand, they supported the bond measures with the other.
By 1898, the Cubans were busy trying to forcibly eject the Spanish for the third time in three decades.
By then, many fans in the building were busy monitoring their cellphones for updates on the baseball game outside.
House Republicans were busy with last-minute negotiations on their long-awaited tax plan, expected to be unveiled today.
Firefighters were busy clearing roofs and streets of fallen branches, some of which hit cars, houses and power lines.
But he rejected as unsatisfactory the explanation that the agents were busy on other aspects of the Russia investigation.
Most of them were busy tending to butts, which I totally get, so I turned to the internet instead.
Meanwhile, crews were busy with the cleanup of snapped trees, damaged structures and piles of debris from Friday's storm.
He nodded and smiled at the hotel workers, who were busy shuttering the windows in preparation for the storm.
Mortgage lenders were busy last week, but mostly with current homeowners looking to take advantage of low mortgage rates.
This meant getting constant calls when they were spending time with their families or when they were busy doing work.
If you were like us, you were busy curating your Caboodles collection and swooning over the newest Delia*s catalogue.
But just because KenGi were busy taking the runway by storm, don't think CaKe wasn't right there cheering them on.
And while you were busy recovering from Halloween party hangovers this weekend, Will Ferrell was out there rocking the vote.
Manafort and his team were busy "nipping and tucking" with a goal of ridding the party of its gangster image.
As Philae made its harrowing journey across the surface of the comet, its onboard sensors were busy collecting important data.
Even as Rosetta made its final death plunge onto the surface of the comet, mission scientists were busy collecting data.
But the scientists they corresponded with were busy and it was clear that enlisting their help would take significant time.
The two mixed martial arts UFC fighters were busy getting married in a laid-back fiesta in the Aloha State.
O) were busy on Monday ahead of the search giant's quarterly results that could help it unseat Apple Inc (AAPL.
We also have an orchestra, so we were busy trying to synchronize all of that so it all works together.
Roads quiet on Wednesday as office workers stayed away from the city center were busy with traffic again on Thursday.
So, if I ever wanted a break, I'd dial my sister or a friend while they were busy at work.
Even though some areas were busy, most featured quiet, tree-lined streets with small homes and cars parked out front.
Iranians on social media asked why officials were busy fending off criticism from abroad rather than sympathising with grieving families.
While some firms were busy fixing other crises, they inadvertently created a jumble of climate-friendly—and voilà, efficient—solutions.
The checks also revealed more than three-quarters of the stores were "busy" in the days preceding the storm's arrival.
If you were busy taking in all the glam at the Grammys, you probably missed a few key Kylie Jenner updates.
But while most of us were busy analyzing every scene of the new video, we weren't watching Swift's social media activity.
Last month, all three women were busy at the new factory hoping for a chance to stitch their lives back together.
While the ladies were busy looking at the solar eclipse for their candid moment, all eyes were on Fonda's hair color.
Toy sections were busy at both companies during the weekend, Morgan Stanley analyst Simeon Gutman said in a report on Monday.
What happened The streets outside Flinders Street Station were busy with commuters and holiday shoppers when the SUV rammed into pedestrians.
While we all were busy looking at Trump's awkward handshake, this guy was in the corner was having the last laugh.
The abrupt mood swing came amid reports Chinese and U.S. officials were busy negotiating to avert an all-out trade war.
Murphy's mother and father were busy with work—his mother doing corporate P.R., his father running circulation for a local newspaper.
On Twitter, meanwhile, hundreds of accounts were busy posting anti-Clinton messages and promoting the leaked material obtained by Russian hackers.
To make matters worse, the mainstream media were busy chronicling body language and personal interactions between newly elected heads of state.
Those who chose to stay home were busy boarding up their houses, trimming trees or gathering stockpiles of food and water.
Having been angrily sidelined during Reconstruction, the whites newly in control were busy enshrining into law racially discriminatory and segregationist ideas.
I hustled down the stairs and started for my room but about half-way I remembered that the phones were busy.
But several House Republican women told POLITICO they didn't even watch the hearing, saying they were busy conducting their official duties.
Top State Department officials were busy trying to evacuate the American Embassy, fearing that the Libyan leader might use diplomats as hostages.
From Taylor Swift to Nicki Minaj, stars of all kinds were busy posting pictures to help celebrate one of music's big nights.
The witnesses who spoke to The Associated Press refused to give their names or were busy at the scene of the blasts.
The movie follows two high school students who try to cram in all the fun they missed while they were busy studying.
While you crazy kids were busy 3D-printing fidget spinners in your school science labs, we millennials grew up and aged out.
The Orioles also were busy before the game, putting their closer Zach Britton on the disabled list with a left forearm strain.
While Kate and William, both 37, were busy competing, they remained under the watchful eye of their grandparents, Mike and Carole Middleton.
This Fourth of July, while we were busy celebrating America, an adorable baby raccoon was struggling to stay afloat in a creek.
On a recent morning, around 200 staff in red shirts were busy assembling machinery and producing reams of cables in the factory.
And while we were busy discussing the fact that she produced, wrote, and directed the film, we nearly missed her latest haircut.
Field organizers were busy calling supporters, and every so often the ding of a bell signaled that another volunteer was on board.
It then provides you with easy-to-read visualization of what was happening to your body while you were busy getting off.
Last week, financiers were busy doing deals overlooking Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour at conferences hosted by Airline Economics and Euromoney's Airfinance Journal.
In the 24 hours before Trump's tweet, top administration officials were busy publicly heralding the new designations targeting the Chinese shipping companies.
The crowd of young Australians, sons and daughters of immigrants from China, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries, were busy hitting the beat.
It was comical and also unbelievable, as if above them the skies were busy with flying pigs, and no one had noticed.
Rescue crews were busy responding to another fire at a home that was caused by a lightning strike, officials told the Concord Monitor .
Well, while you were busy doing that, you failed to notice one subtle change that supposedly went down sometime during those 30 days.
The primate party planners were busy making things just right for this girl, who had a fully-decked out enclosure for the day.
" A table at the Coffee Deli in Savannah, Georgia "Our relationship had sort of fizzled out, and we were busy with college finals.
When we thought people were busy then – filing paperwork, sending faxes, and leaving voicemails – we had no idea what we were in for.
Just yesterday, we were busy reading way too much into what the Obamas' vacation outfit choices meant for the future of the country.
Toy aisles were busy at Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT) during the holiday weekend, Morgan Stanley analyst Simeon Gutman said in a report.
Besides, most of them were busy mourning the latest casualties, trying to process yet another lethal attack in the heart of their capital.
As Mr. Song and Mr. Kamin exchanged messages on July 27 and 28, other Chinese authorities were busy trying to contain the crash.
Most of Harry's prickle of 20 to 30 hedgehogs were busy snoozing, with their snouts burrowed into the corners of their glass tanks.
"The lawyers were busy and felt Trump was a waste of time and they should be focusing on the Hillary report," he said.
She didn't want to trouble anyone: She didn't tell my two cousins because she thought they were busy caring for their young child.
Indian officials in Odisha were busy over the weekend clearing debris with power saws and trying to restore full electricity to the state.
While many people were busy with the Thanksgiving weekend, a dramatic case in suburban New Jersey grew clouded by more questions than answers.
During recent preparations at one mosque, congregants were busy and filled with pride, talking animatedly with one another about the celebrations to come.
This past summer, he and Heraty were busy setting up an independent community fund for North and South Carolina called the Cypress Fund.
On the day Trump's first immigration ban order was announced, Patrick and I were busy writing about class struggle in Gravity Rush 2.
But what lies behind that perfectly tanned leg casually resting in the golden sand on a Sunday afternoon, while you were busy doing laundry?
The Verge has tried calling a customer support number several times, and immediately heard an automated message that all circuits were busy, every time.
From getting bids on furniture, to hiring movers, to opening up a new office, we were busy with the logistics of the relocation itself.
Just like summer, modders were  busy recreating GoldenEye 007 within the original Doom engine and updating fan-made remasters of GoldenEye with new effects.
The report warned that the growth rate experienced even as recently as 2014, when deal makers were busy, may well not come roaring back.
DARRON LEE Linebacker, Ohio State The Jets were busy monitoring the trade possibilities for this first-round selection, but settled on a speedy linebacker.
In a back room at Delightful's northwest side shop last Wednesday, six workers were busy mixing, kneading and rolling the creamy dough into balls.
And long before Mr. Trump entered the presidential race, Republican legislators were busy passing voter ID laws based on the fallacy of widespread fraud.
"We were busy before this with new construction," Melanie Williamson, of Williamson & Sons Marine Construction in Cape Coral, Florida, told the local News-Press.
A few feet away, the gas pumps were busy with Floridians topping off as they fled from the coast and north toward Dothan, Ala.
By the end of the first 100 days, civil servants and other professionals were busy proving that they had no Jews in their families.
His hands were busy securing his hat to his head and protecting his newspaper (The Jewish Daily Forward, no doubt) from the oncoming gusts.
People were busy talking about whether quarterback Dak Prescott was holding back the Cowboys, and Prescott had indeed muddled through three games before Sunday.
But even in the wake of that undeniably resounding defeat, the leaders of the Christian right were busy rolling out a more pronounced pivot.
My parents were busy assimilating; they were also busy shuttling us to every single extracurricular and trying to get us as Americanized as possible.
At the entrance to the East Wing, Trump asked some of the children to read from cards to troops that they were busy penning.
For all intents and purposes, YouTubers Liza Koshy and David Dobrik broke up for the same vague reasons all celebrities break up: they were busy.
But while we were busy tracking her latest looks in that department, Jenner just slid in with an enviable eye that's perfect for the holidays.
And while you were busy speculating about what all those on-screen hair changes mean, you may have missed Johansson's real-life journey to blonde.
Iraqis' liking of Iranian dates was evident at a sprawling market outside Baghdad where traders were busy arranging colorful cartons of them in long rows.
"Those who were busy with politics in the cabinet then, in an unprecedented way, will continue doing it this week too," Ya'alon said on Facebook.
Oh the horror if some celebrity released their own emoji app and you missed out because you were busy trying to catch the millionth Zubat.
Outside the Royal Terminal at the King Khalid airport, workers were busy fluffing the scarlet strip until the moment Trump emerged from Air Force One.
NDAA AMENDMENTS ROLL IN: Senators were busy Wednesday filing amendments to the defense bill, setting up floor fights on a number of hot button issues.
While Donald Trump was being sworn in as the country's 45th president on Friday, the American people were busy searching Google with one burning question.
One day after lunch had been served, we were busy tending to after-chow responsibilities, such as processing paperwork and visitors, and other daily tasks.
This morning, the staff of the pharmacy were busy labeling the products with the new prices, and the can of coke will cost 28 bolivars.
A few feet away, the gas pumps were busy with Floridians topping off as they fled away from the coast and north toward Dothan, Ala.
The bar was rowdy with people eating wings and watching basketball on televisions, but the men were busy studying the cracked, aging wall beside them.
Progressive groups, such as the Democratic "super PAC" American Bridge, were busy on Thursday digging through his background and looking for stains on his record.
Washington (CNN)As US officials were busy assessing Iran's missile attacks in Iraq late Tuesday, messages began arriving from Iran saying one thing: We're done.
On Saturday, RNC staffers were busy setting up TV screens in the private club, so Trump could address the guests via satellite, according to CNN.
While the Jonas Brothers were busy "Burnin' Up" social media with hilarious winter storm memes this past weekend, the Snownas Brothers were chillin' in Connecticut.
They had not spoken at length in years because they were busy with their own lives after high school, but now Kelly wanted to talk.
While we were busy analyzing trailers, dissecting set photos, debating the merits of Rory's childhood loves, and generally theorizing about how the fast-talking family drama would end, those infamous last four words included, the cast and creators of the series were busy vaguely answering scheduling questions, trying to stay out of heated fan debates, and generally attempting to not mistakenly reveal any spoilers.
Until he was four, his father and mother were busy in the family haberdashery shop 12 hours a day, six and a half days a week.
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.
While smartphone makers were busy fiddling around the edges of display notches, headphone manufacturers really improved the substance as well as the style of their products.
Twenty-six centuries ago the hosts of Lydia and Media were busy butchering each other in what is now Turkey when an eclipse darkened the sky.
That's sets it during the post-Order 66 period when Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine were busy snuffing out the lingering remains of the Jedi Order.
Donald Trump's finally weighing in on the Oscars, and thinks the whole Best Picture snafu happened because the show's producers were busy throwing insults at him.
In the late 1800s, men at the Harvard College Observatory were busy gazing at the sky through telescopes, gathering data about the stars and the planets.
"Lego Movie" directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller didn't direct it (they were busy with other projects), but they've returned as co-writers and co-producers.
While you were enjoying your Halloween sugar high, retailers were busy gearing up for what they hope will be your holiday shopping high later this month.
As Pitt issued a statement and Adele dedicated a show to the couple, local British newspapers were busy finding their own unique takes on the story.
The Institute wasn't crowded when I went, but I could imagine that waiting in line for the powder might take a while if it were busy.
Behind Aguirre, dozens of workers in blue jumpsuits and white hard hats were busy putting up several tall, funnel-shaped towers to support the terminal roof.
That included the construction workers who were busy on Sunday building the ten-foot barricades encircling the Quicken Loans Arena, where the convention is being held.
Even as he spoke, Mugabe's agents were busy finalizing plans to engineer an election victory through manipulation of the voters' roll, according to the Tsvangirai camp.
In Conway, residents like Ellen Arnold and Peter Saltzstein were busy dealing with the problems in front of them while also peering, grimly, into the future.
He and other relatives called the police dozens of times, he said, but either there was no answer or they were told that officers were busy.
On the other side of the state, I.C.E. agents were busy arresting 97 undocumented immigrants at a meat-processing plant in Bean Station, in East Tennessee.
Workers were busy pruning plants and fixing the fountain as Charles is expected to pay it a visit during a tour of Old Havana, she added.
This year, mall employees across the country were busy on Monday night posting to Facebook, advising that hours had been changed and that stores had closed.
On Tuesday, as U.S. President Donald Trump surveyed damage elsewhere on Puerto Rico, some of the nursery's 19 employees were busy repotting damaged plants and cleaning up.
While you were busy wincing in disgust or drooling over these trends, cult-favorite potato chip brands were taking their own stab at the mash-up game.
On a rainy day in December, Kerdi and his team were busy making Stollen, rye bread with fruits and nuts that is a Christmas staple in Germany.
At the downtown Washington Archives headquarters on Tuesday, uniformed US service members were busy loading palettes of cardboard boxes stuffed with Obama administration records onto orange forklifts.
Even in the first World Series game in which both starting pitchers allowed four baserunners or fewer, the bullpens were busy in Game 4 on Saturday night.
Leslie Mazzara, Adriane Insogna, and their friend Lauren Meanza were busy handing out candy to trick-or-treaters at their Napa, California, home on Halloween night 2004.
While Chinese athletes are over at Rio Olympics chalking up medals, members of a different species were busy setting their own world record back home in China.
Although several dealers said business was slow and thought there were fewer American visitors because of the recent attacks in Brussels, others were busy with European clients.
While many Democrats were busy using their "indoor" voices against Donald Trump, Waters rose so far above her bumbling party, she lost all touch with the ground.
Barely days after the worst of hurricanes Harvey and Irma passed in 2017, residents were busy salvaging what they could and hauling the rest to the curb.
"It is simply not fair that they apply rules selectively and when convenient," she said of the enforcement officers, who were busy trying to flee the cameras.
You were allowed to be sad if a loved one died, or if you were freshly unemployed or if you were busy surviving some other verified catastrophe.
In other areas, a small army of rescue workers were busy on Saturday and Sunday delivering supplies and helping trapped residents to safety by boat and helicopter.
They were busy with their lives and personal struggles, but they found that politics became a crushing force that none of them in the end could escape.
While anti-vaxers were busy spreading their false propaganda, "the good guys," as Schaffner calls them, failed to effectively communicate how dangerous diseases like measles can be.
Many reported that phone lines at party headquarters were busy for hours, as potentially hundreds of volunteers from more than 1,600 precincts tried calling in their results.
Around the same time, on the other side of the planet, erupting volcanoes were busy covering much of the Indian subcontinent with lava, forming the Deccan Traps.
I moved toward the doors, and Rich trailed me with his hands in his pockets, telling me if my Uber driver were busy, he could take me home.
While millions of Americans were busy staking out prime eclipse-watching spots on the ground, a few lucky travelers were getting ready to view it from the air.
It's not exactly easy to hit the ballot box when you're 4,000 miles away, or 10,000 miles away, and certainly, during Iraq, we were busy all the time.
While many were busy wondering who Becky is and what her "good hair" looks like, many members of the Black community understood the true meaning of the term.
"Instead of shopping, we were busy visiting banks and government offices to prove that there is a wedding in the family," said Rahul Ahire, a cousin of Zhalte.
While many people were busy tweeting up a storm about the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, others were captivated by a different, less controversial figure.
On Sunday night, Smyers and Mooney were busy with their initial awards-show rehearsal  — as well as the opportunity to make someone else's CMA Awards week special, too.
Additionally, they wrote that 16 organizations were busy looking for Sam, including the Snohomish County Search and Rescue, the  Air Force Rescue Coordination Center, and the Coast Guard.
Marlatt said plans to restore normalcy hadn't begun yet because they were busy trying to chainsaw through and search for people who may be stuck inside their homes.
While their schools were shut down, Kathmandu's rocker kids were busy sneaking off to scope out bootleg copies of Hybrid Theory and Meteora in hidden back alley shops.
So, if Intel had had its way, this chip flaw would have been disclosed at CES while we were busy, and Diet Coke actually got away with this.
On a recent morning, dozens of construction workers were busy outside the 72nd Street station, where some of them were installing panels on the side of a building.
But none of them would talk about him: Some said they were busy; some said they were traveling; others said they simply weren't interested in discussing Mr. Trump.
While Americans were busy enjoying the July Fourth holiday, news broke that North Korea had crossed another military milestone: its first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The popular entertainers, who are all male, have officially had their college diplomas revoked because they were busy rehearsing and performing when they should have been in class.
Greeting scooter-riding delivery workers in Beijing before the Chinese new year, President Xi Jinping offered them a thoroughly collective compliment, beaming that they were "busy as bees".
Opinion by: Krystal Ball I know you guys were busy watching Rising's debate coverage so you may have missed Chris Cillizza's debate winners and losers over on CNN.
She later gave birth to another daughter, Gracie Belle Taylor, and essentially raised her on her own, as her husband and oldest daughter were ~busy~ living their lives.
He added that breeding grandmothers were less capable of providing the same level of support to baby calves, as they were busy taking care of their own offspring.
If you were busy spending a winter in Buffalo, only to get a quick vacation to the Bahamas for the weekend, how focused on football would you be?
Former policeman Fenta Marelgn said he was ordered to arrest farmers who did not attend a meeting on planting seeds in 2015 because they were busy harvesting crops.
But they couldn't get anything scheduled, in part because several National Security Council officials were busy looking into the feasibility of Trump's desire to buy Greenland, Taylor said.
While Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang obliquely acknowledged Trump's online posts at a press briefing Monday, government censors were busy blocking screenshots of the tweets across Chinese social media.
So he started his rally by belittling reporters, reminding his supporters that Washington journalists were busy cavorting in a ballroom with Hollywood celebrities at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Then, when I wanted to be pregnant but wasn't, I felt that pregnant women had the cake I wanted, and were busy bitching about the flavor of the icing.
If there happened to be a Friday night when all of my friends were busy, and I was stuck home by myself, I'd dissolve into a pool of tears.
"That's an old sign, from years ago, when we were busy," said Michael Huang, 68, who has owned the shop with his wife, Judy, for more than 30 years.
With a very thin margin of error and lots of competing demands on tax reform, Senate leadership and the president were busy cutting deals with key holdouts this week.
Meanwhile, Kilduff noted, oil drillers were busy hedging their production, a practice in which they lock in a cost for delivery of crude to protect against future price declines.
"There are a lot of large accounts that were busy with today's new issues and had not placed orders yet, since this is tomorrow's business," one source told IFR.
While his older siblings were busy kicking around a soccer ball and showing off some dance moves, Louis kept mom Kate running after him as he explored the area.
Its opponents were relentlessly campaigning against it, while the bill's supporters were busy negotiating — and perpetually dissatisfied with its latest form — and didn't defend it in a meaningful way.
Representatives of Allstate, Progressive and MetLife said they were busy dealing with policyholders in the flooded region and it was too early to estimate the magnitude of the disaster.
While they were busy handicapping the field, I was turning, as I usually do at this time of year, to my fairly robust shelf of books about the sport.
The vet had given instructions to the man who worked there, and while we were busy with the injections he had dug a hole of certain dimensions for Augustus.
On his Twitter feed, the spokesman quoted central bank governor Florens Luoga saying the raids had been conducted together with the military because police were busy guarding national exams.
A few times in my thirties I even won the tournament at the Harvard Club, when the genuinely gifted players were busy with their version of Occupy Wall Street.
Just two years ago, Ms. Sucha said, farmers and ranchers in the area were busy donating bales of their hay to ranches in Kansas and Oklahoma devastated by wildfires.
He instead emphasized that the rebels themselves preferred not to engage because they were busy fighting the regime and didn't want to be in league with the Nusra Front.
That day, the streets were busy with foot traffic from visitors passing through the Delicious Little Tokyo food festival, a community event organized by the Little Tokyo Community Council.
Over the next few years, savings and retirement rarely came to mind: My money and I were busy doing other things, namely, paying rent, eating out with friends, and traveling.
While Prince William and Prince Harry faced off in a charity polo match on Wednesday, George and Charlotte were busy kicking around a soccer ball and showing off dance moves.
While Armstrong and Aldrin were busy landing, setting up experiments and collecting samples from the lunar surface, Collins had to keep all of the subsystems running on Columbia by himself.
Kate Upton really coulda used a hand -- hers were busy covering her naked boobs when a powerful wave crashed her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit photo shoot, which took place last October.
So, while other L.A. mothers were busy giving their six-year-old children Easy-Bake Oven demos, mine was passing the torch by preparing me for a hijacking/kidnapping/mugging.
Mazen Hasoun, an activist from Raqqa in Europe who is in touch with friends and relatives in the city, said the militants were busy digging trenches, even in the backstreets.
While football fans were busy biting their nails, T-Mobile and Verizon spent the last half of the Super Bowl making everyone on Twitter uncomfortable by trading BDSM-themed insults.
Mr Gulen was for years an ally of Mr Erdogan, never more so than when Gulenist prosecutors were busy purging the military "deep state" on charges of fomenting a putsch.
Traders and analysts were busy trying to explain its importance, with all of them noting that 33 was the last time that the 10-year was at such a handle.
As the top generals were busy in Helmand, the northern city of Kunduz, which was briefly overrun by the Taliban last fall, once again faced strong offensives at its gates.
If you don't see the look back at 2017 waiting for you in Snapchat's memories tab, you probably just didn't generate enough content because you were busy over on Instagram.
Fingernail-scale examples of Davids wrestling Goliaths, Samsons wrestling lions, and other ink and chalk heroes wrestling other foes were busy stealing the show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
While Michael and Elgene tirelessly bounced the basketball off the fence surrounding the jail's entrance, inmates and guards inside the jail were busy getting ready for their own basketball tournament.
In the days before the festival, the shaded side of Stone Town's streets were busy with men painting walls, doors, chairs — basically anything that would dry in time for Eid.
Even before Trump arrived in Switzerland on Thursday, world leaders were busy making it clear that they disagree with the anti-free trade rhetoric coming out of the United States.
He and 33 other members of the Yazidi religious community, one of Iraq's oldest minorities, moved to the town's outskirts while their Islamic State captors were busy with the battle.
Arizona Coyotes Last season: 30-42-10, 70 points, sixth in the Pacific, missed playoffs Offseason report: They were busy adding legitimate NHL talent, like Derek Stepan and Niklas Hjalmarsson.
While the second presidential debate of 21943 raged on Sunday night, the good folks at Merriam-Webster were busy keeping track of the most searched terms on their website from viewers.
As of publication the shooter in this attack remained on the loose, although police, who were busy interviewing witnesses for a suspect description, indicated there was no cause for wider alarm.
While most fans and haters alike were debating her ensemble (the jury is still out on the sash, pants, and pleated skirt combo), we were busy ogling her new hair color.
He was a rarity among male artists on the radio at the time, most of whom were busy professing their love of big butts or penchant for around-the-way girls.
While you were busy naming your child after your favorite Instagram filter, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend were consulting the President of the United States about what to name their child.
Someone like Nunes or House Oversight Committee Chair Trey Gowdy might have been "more effective communicators" or "better masters of the facts," but they were busy conducting the investigation, he said.
The first one we ran, but while we were busy working on other ones, there were syndicated clubs in New Orleans and Miami and in both cases, there were segregation problems.
Instead, he waited until his players were busy singing the school fight song and engaging in other post-game festivities, and then prayed alone, silently, for less than half a minute.
I remember you proudly repped N.Y.C. during the few minutes we spoke, so I suspect you'd moved back or maybe you were busy or you didn't know I was in town.
We were busy meeting with new friends we had met aboard, exchanging phone numbers and email addresses, hoping to stay in contact and offering the usual goodbye hugs and well wishes.
If we had a royal family it would be holding lots of normal Christmas festivities right now, to distract us while the political leaders were busy being flushed down the toilet.
As we devoured our avocado toast, Iridium engineers on the East Coast were busy maneuvering the satellites into their orbital planes while Desch explained why SpaceX and Iridium are ideal partners.
When most high schoolers were busy studying for the SATs, thinking about prom, and preparing for college, William Brown was spending his time building a robust knowledge of real-estate investing.
The doctors there were busy when she arrived, but the nurse said she could look at her rash and at least tell the patient whether it was worth being concerned about.
But amid this destruction, one thing seemed to weather the storm quite well — spotted seatrout, which were busy making babies as the eye of the hurricane passed over their spawning grounds.
Driving on Thursday evening near the sprawling Nineveh International Hotel, in the northern part of the city, the streets were busy with civilian traffic, joined occasionally by an Iraqi armored vehicle.
At times we say they were busy going to church meetings--an ecclesiastical gathering--and they had to get on down to Jerusalem so they wouldn't be late for their meeting.
At the same time, another pair of key attorneys for the President, Jane and Marty Raskin, were busy trying to coordinate calls with a lawyer on special counsel Robert Mueller's team.
The likelihood also dipped to around 69 percent in mid-November as Fed officials were busy walking back some of the hawkish talk from central bank Chairman Jerome Powell in early October.
While tabloids were busy investigating what could have gone wrong between the two, Hilton opted not to air their grievances on The Simple Life, or manufacture a media story out of it.
Gender imbalance: Several journalists pointed out that all executives on the call were women, while CEO Travis Kalanick and board member and investor Bill Gurley were busy with interviewing potential COO candidates.
While other teams used the All-Star break to refresh before diving back into the pennant race, the San Francisco Giants were busy preparing for the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline.
A spokesman at Modi's office said no official was available for comment as they were busy with the election while a finance ministry spokesman referred to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's previous comments.
Even as the French were busy defending the geographical boundaries of champagne, the British makers of Bass Ale prioritised protecting their trademark—the first granted in the country—while competing on quality.
But as the popularity of UberEats, which allowed customers to order food directly through Uber grew, drivers who could have been picking up passengers were busy transporting meals through UberRush and UberEats.
There's really no better way to recap the past year than to go back over what people were busy typing into search engines as our planet made its way around the sun.
Remember the pain you felt when the joystick wasn't quite right and they were hosing you on Mortal Kombat while you were busy trying to figure out why your character kept kicking?
Still, it's a deeply human fantasy so many queer teens needed, particularly in the mid-nineties when people were busy debating whether or not people like her should even be considered human.
Whilst we were busy fawning over Nigeria and their stunning World Cup jersey, we overlooked Senegal, who were quietly waiting in the wings to show the world what they are made of.
A Seattle-area employee who requested anonymity to speak frankly about the company said it was unrealistic for employees to perform the full cleaning process every 30 minutes when cafes were busy.
While paint-by-number kits were busy taking the hobbyist market by storm, the art world began to embrace different sorts of art that were equally outside the auspices of traditional painting.
It was something to do after you had settled down into the easy chair of life, not for those who were busy carving their initials into a young life of their own.
Klum shared a selfie video as makeup artists were busy applying a gray shade of makeup to her face, while she showed off her fake set of monster teeth and pair of horns.
Behind them, other partygoers helped themselves to the buffet of food — including Steisand's actor husband James Brolin — but the two stars were busy catching up on the latest musicians moving up the charts.
Behind them, other partygoers helped themselves to the buffet of food — including Streisand's actor husband James Brolin — but the two stars were busy catching up on the latest musicians moving up the charts.
According to Marco, reframing conversations around fusion to reflect the experiences of immigration and assimilation isn't a responsibility that falls to his parents' generation; they were busy getting their feet on the ground.
At the headquarters of the Bernie Sanders campaign in the Wright building, a former factory in St Paul, young people were busy working the phones a couple of hours before the caucus started.
Finding a bunch of wax moths in her hives, where they were busy munching on the wax that her bees need to make honeycomb, she dumped the pesky critters in a plastic bag.
At precisely the same time that LGBT rights organizations were successfully securing legal recognition for same-sex couples, "tough on crime" lawmakers across the country were busy enacting new criminal legislation targeting sex.
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.
To be sure many primary focus activists like Starboard Value, Pershing Square Capital Management and Third Point were busy in 2018 targeting companies ranging from Newell Brands to United Technologies to Campbell Soup.
Friday evening, for instance, as news of Viacom's latest legal battles broke, Paramount executives were busy staging a significant promotional event on their lot for "Star Trek Beyond," which arrives on July 22.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were busy on the campaign trail, early voting was already underway handful of states and anticipation was building for the second presidential debate, which was two days away.
He and the State Legislature were busy waging battle against same-sex marriage and passing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, seen as a means for businesses to deny services to same-sex couples.
While Jesus was preaching to the newly converted, the Hindus were busy conducting in-depth studies of how to best spark, fulfil and maintain sexual desire, as documented in the infamous Kama Sutra.
Someone from Adele's people was not let inside so there were a slight argument and I used that situation, where the security guys were busy with them, to get on the red carpet.
While President Trump's son-in-law was readying his framework for Israeli-Palestinian talks, Israeli legislators were busy doing something they've never done before: dissolving the Parliament after failing to form a government.
At the same time that some people were busy building post-racial castles in the air — few black people among them — the pushback against a black president underlined the dangerous endurance of racism.
For example, they said children who were bored after school should be enrolled in extracurricular activities, and that parents who were busy should stop their task and draw with their children if asked.
She was kind of always in the background, the kind of person who would keep doing the work she had to do and make sure other people were busy doing their jobs, too.
On a recent morning, the feral cats on the West 136th Street lot were nowhere to be seen, but next door, in a handsome townhouse, construction workers were busy on a major renovation.
My mother's predecessors as Miss America were busy (and well paid) "fulfilling duties" — touring the country and making promotional appearances — but none of the pageant's sponsors wanted their products associated with a Jew.
As an example of a modest success story, the archbishop cited the village of Telskuf were 120 families had returned and were busy renovating their homes with help from the church and other agencies.
"The children were busy preparing for our Pre-K graduation when Lucas received the call that he got the transplant," Laurie Archambault, a staffer at the Hellenic American Academy in Lowell, Massachusetts, tells PEOPLE.
We were busy at the end of last year either doing our own thing or being on tour, so we didn't have a lot of time to prepare or set up for the record.
I spent the following weeks desperately texting and trying to set up plans, crushed when people replied that they were busy that night (Surely, with other friends who are better than me, I thought).
Yet within hours of moving into her new house, four men were busy unpacking and assembling a new queen-sized bed in her bedroom while two others were installing a fridge in the kitchen.
Just days after the United States saw the deadliest mass shooting in recent history, instead of focusing on gun control, House Republicans were busy passing a bill that directly attacks women's right to choose.
While we were busy discovering Snapchat, Apple Watches, and Tom Ford, they were still looking up what "on fleek" meant on Urban Dictionary—which, coincidentally, also stopped being cool the moment we were born.
While the fact-checkers were busy during last night's presidential debate trying to keep both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump honest, Andy Cohen thinks he may have caught something those reporters may have missed.
While your friends were busy pooling money to get you that Starbucks gift card for your last birthday, Chelsea Handler was sending pal Reese Witherspoon a naked picture to celebrate her big 4-0.
While some were busy arguing over whether Tyler (Devin Druid) was the one who really shot Alex (Miles Heizer), others were staring at Christian Navarro's Tony and thinking: welp, he's definitely a ghost, right?
While the rest of us bums were busy doing who knows what, editor Fran Hoepfner spent part of the past two months penning alternate titles for magician-action-comedy Now You See Me 2.
Works in Progress In a giant production studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in July, volunteers were busy making 2,986 tobacco leaves — painting, distressing and scrunching pieces of brown paper by hand.
On Monday, workers at a repair yard near the company's Ohio headquarters were busy painting rail cars, fixing their wheels and preparing to return them to service hauling grain, plastic pellets and other products.
Over the holidays, when most Americans were busy buying stuff and trying to stay cool in the December heat, one of the most significant environmental policies of the last several decades was quietly enacted.
While nuclear families were busy filling their bodies with OJ, in the 2199s and 272s, a German scientist and a British businessman were independently turning juice from a wholesome drink into an actual lifestyle.
The two countries were still technically at war (as they remain today) and as the Pueblo was being captured, South Korean commandos were busy hunting down and killing the remaining North Korean hit squad.
To the extent that the country was unable to forcefully expand further, it was because Americans were busy fighting each other, first in "Bleeding Kansas" and then in the full-fledged American Civil War.
The New York Times contacted 10 high-profile conductors and other leading classical music figures for comment but was told they were busy, on vacation or felt they did not know enough to comment.
The incoming administration and its Israeli ally were busy counting the days until the old team will be swept from the stage and a new Israeli-American alignment redefines the politics of the region.
At an Autonomy Investor Day in April, he expressed confidence that Tesla cars, ones already out on the road, would be able to deliver autonomous rides even while their owners were busy at work.
Since so many ICE agents were busy attending to the influx of migrants at the southern US border, they said, there were fewer agents free to apprehend undocumented immigrants already in the country.  5.
"It's a really unique opportunity for them to basically have a recap of what happened while they were busy, what happened when they weren't watching every single second the way CNN did," she said.
Mr. Flake was supposedly gearing up to run for re-election, and his race was going to be extremely difficult; Arizona is a pro-Trump state, so pundits were busy predicting Mr. Flake's demise.
Social media can trump big donor money When the early GOP favorites were pre-campaigning for big donors' affections and Clinton was filling her own war chest, two candidates were busy building something else: movements.
While we were busy obsessing about the addition of rosé cider to summer drink menus, artist and foodie Nadia Roden was in her nephew's popsicle shop perfecting an even more genius alcohol trend: the poptail.
While the US was preoccupied with low-tech and tough conflicts in the Middle East and nearby areas, Russia and China were busy figuring out how to offset US advantages in fancy aircraft and missiles.
Buyers were also disappointed to see that the El Moussas were not in attendance for the classes, instead appearing in a prerecorded video to inform attendees that they were busy working and filming their show.
But while we were busy paying attention to the usual good-hair suspects — Taylor Swift, Chloë Grace Moretz, Lea Michele — we totally missed a whole other gang of people jumping on board the bangs bandwagon.
Early Tuesday morning, the sun meets retrograde communication planet Mercury, allowing you a second chance to correct your mistakes and account for things that were overlooked while you were busy thinking about the big picture.
You'll find yourself feeling way more quiet and private about your love life than you have been in the last few weeks, as you were busy socializing while Venus was in sexy Water sign Scorpio.
Kenneth Mapp of the United States Virgin Islands on a Navy amphibious assault ship offshore, the residents of the island of St. Croix were busy putting together lives and neighborhoods wrenched apart by Hurricane Maria.
As Mr. Johnson consolidated his grip on government, his aides were busy trying to douse questions over who paid for an expensive holiday vacation for the prime minister on the chic Caribbean island of Mustique.
While Cigna and Anthem, and Humana and Aetna were busy trying to merge, UnitedHealth stood out to Cramer as the one company to challenge the Affordable Care Act when it spoke publicly against the healthcare exchanges.
While Baby Boomers were busy buying homes for us to grow up in, or aiding in the great crash of 29, we started investing in experiences, not things — and revolutionizing the consumer economy in the process.
To be fair to Pinheiro and Luiz Rocha, the two researchers who missed the shark that was right there, they were busy nabbing a brand new species of fish — Tosanoides aphrodite — in that deep, dark reef.
With just 74 days before Christmas, many children were busy trying out the "toy-telligence" range at Hamleys' 136-year-old flagship toy emporium in London on Thursday before finalizing their wish list for Santa Claus.
While folks were busy creating new email addresses to sign up for free trials of Tidal, Beyoncé – or someone with access to her Twitter account – appears to have been lurking through online reactions to the album.
While the Washington policy industry was trying to squeeze the last dose of fun out of the summer, many of the supporters of the Department of Labor's new overtime regulation were busy trying to sell it.
Before the law passed, Visa and MasterCard were busy giving banks payoffs for the banks' agreement that they would block competitor debit networks (companies like Star and Pulse) from handling transactions on those banks' debit cards.
And he'd tell me to call my pretty friends to come sit at the tables in front of the window in exchange for free meals, so it would look like we were busy with attractive girls.
On New Year's Eve, while most people were busy drinking the night away, a number of men sexually assaulted and robbed multiple women on the square in front of the central train station in Cologne, Germany.
Tax preparers said that they were busy even before the filing season began, because they had to learn about the tax changes and also had to figure out how best to explain the changes to clients.
In the White House, officials were busy plotting ways to respond to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had just issued a threat to shelve President Donald Trump's State of the Union address if agencies remained shuttered.
Back in 2014, when we were busy smugly predicting that the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge wouldn't cure anything but were still doing it anyway, we were working for a company that edited and rewrote folks' résumés.
"They said they were busy with the election, and if we need any help we can call them," said Meuy Lah, 60, who was there with her pregnant daughter and said she was low on food.
For example, I wouldn't use Siri in a quiet restaurant to find out when the next Arsenal game is, but I would ask it to skip a track while my hands were busy steering a bike.
The dispute began in the summer of 2015 as officials were busy reviewing the roughly 30,000 emails Clinton returned to the State Department ahead of their court-ordered public release in batches in 2015 and 2016.
In fact, it's those perfect frames you didn't notice as a kid because you were busy singing songs or playing dress up that make you realize that animation can be just as beautiful as live-action movies.
As this was happening, the scientists were busy scanning their brains, paying close attention to the part of the game when participants have to decide about whether to be aggressive or not in terms of the retaliation.
While experimental composers, psychedelics enthusiasts, and dancefloor destroyers were busy figuring out the boundless possibilities of electronic instrumentation, the film industry saw this new technology as a practical way to soundtrack its pulpier, more cheaply-made productions.
Firefighters were busy elsewhere and it was time for residents to do what they could to protect their homes north of Los Angeles late Thursday: They used garden hoses to lay down at least a little moisture.
As Russian maritime forces tangled with the Ukrainian Navy off the coast of Crimea on Sunday, Ukrainians across the country were busy commemorating the somber 85th anniversary of the 1932-1933 man-made famine, which killed millions.
While Senate Republicans on Monday were busy mounting a last-minute push to take health care away from millions of Americans, two stories broke about the Mueller investigation that suggest it has kicked into a higher gear.
At the same time, they were busy coordinating all aspects of response from alerting the local school to lock down, telling bus services to avoid the area, contacting air transport, and notifying area hospitals of the incident.
For example, while Republicans were busy negotiating, ACA supporters drove the public narrative and set the terms of the debate and defined the policies that Republicans were considering without any rebuttal or other real engagement from Republicans.
While his opponents were busy snapping away during campaign season in an effort to drum up millennial support — even Bernie Sanders joined "Snapshot" — Trump stuck to Twitter to post 140-character statements and call out media companies.
By the end of the week, liberal activists were busy making plans for another demonstration outside a different Cipriani location: protesting a fund-raiser featuring former President Bill Clinton to be held for Mr. Cuomo this month.
While three of the men were busy removing flat-screen televisions from walls—"That's quite a business, but they brought tools," Back said—the others beat him and left him for dead, rolled up in a carpet.
Unsworth called Musk&aposs attempts to get involved in the mission a "PR stunt" while the rescuers were busy developing a plan to remove the boys and their coach from the Tham Luong cave in northern Thailand.
While Apple and Google were busy trying to beat each other to the smart home with HomeKit and Nest, respectively, Amazon snuck in from nowhere with the Echo and its Alexa voice assistant and embarrassed them both.
With Pitt, 52, having wrapped his upcoming movies Allied and War Machine, which both shot overseas, and Jolie finished filming First They Killed My Father, the two were busy with post- (and pre-) production on their many projects.
Sunday night's Game of Thrones episode was packed with action, but when viewers weren't mourning Daenerys's dragon Viserion or squealing over the tense relationship between Sansa and Arya, they were busy fawning over Dany's scene-stealing white coat.
This month they waited until the country's top security officials were busy preparing for a briefing on rampant crime at Johannesburg's international airport, then struck again, hijacking a truck loaded with valuable cargo as it left the gates.
And the American economy added 292,000 net new jobs last month, 40 percent more than forecast — yet Treasury bonds rallied and defensive market sectors outperformed, as economists were busy revising lower their fourth- and first-quarter growth projections.
One's imagination needed to frequently dilate in order to accommodate the ways and means, and otherwise smart men and women were busy with their scuffed crystal balls trying to figure out what was next, and how, and how.
The army is blaming the police to cover up its own weakness, Colonel Jan said, adding that the army was responsible for Chah-i-Anjir's security because his forces were busy trying to secure the district governor's compound.
While we were busy sharing "Reggae Shark," the platform we knew and loved was fast becoming the Fox News of the new white nationalism—the most efficient tool for spreading bigotry to the masses that's yet been invented.
While highly-paid attorneys in a courthouse in San Francisco were busy waving their arms and pointing at illustrative file cabinets, their client was over in Mountain View hosting Google I/O, a giant trade conference for developers.
Instead, I hope we will be able to say that even though we were busy — and even though there were so many issues competing for our attention — we decided together that equality can't wait, and neither would we.
On a recent day, vendors who sell watches and parts from the stationary glass cases that dot the alley were busy unlocking their displays, and shopkeepers rolled up the metal shutters they had pulled down the night before.
Last Wednesday, even as top executives were abandoning President Trump's business advisory councils after his remarks on white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va., other industry leaders were busy making their interests known to a business-friendly White House.
However, while you were busy obsessing over glass skin primers and luxury diaper creams (which are great, to be sure), another international destination has been quietly brewing some of the most innovative makeup, hair, and skin care: Japan.
Just a month ago, as friends and families prepared to gather for the holiday season, the men and women at the U.S. Census Bureau were busy releasing their latest annual estimates of population changes across the United States.
The Kiwis are scheduled to return home in triumph next week, potentially to a ticker-tape parade, but Dalton and his young crew were busy Monday exchanging hugs and hoisting the Cup in triumph in the Bermuda sunshine.
While all the Tsars between her father and Ivan VI were busy underage drinking, window-hunting birds, or being a baby, Elizabeth had been playing a long game by befriending the military regiment that guarded the royal palace.
While audiences were busy digesting Darth Vader's revelation that he was, indeed, Luke's father, a seven-year-old Benjamin Tee was paying attention to a small scene towards the film's end, when Skywalker is fitted with a prosthetic.
That&aposs largely because they were busy with other seemingly important tasks, like meetings and phone calls (Quadrant I).Meanwhile, the store owners were plagued with employment and inventory problems, among other issues, and had minimal management training.
Feldstein plays Molly, a type-A high school senior who is dismayed to realize that while she and best friend Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) were busy studying, their classmates were living it up — and still got into their dream colleges.
It might feel like a lot of celebs are off vacationing right now in their unbelievably cute bikinis, but before they hit the beach, a lot were busy lending their famous faces and talents to big-name fashion brands.
By contrast, the popular boys were busy kicking the shit out of each other in the school field, drinking White Star in the local park, and intent on putting their tongues down as many girls' throats as humanly possible.
You lot across the pond have heard Skepta's "Man" and Stormzy's "Shut Up." But while the collective world got to grips with the most prominent members of Britain's burgeoning urban scene, NSG were busy making moves in the streets.
While we were busy getting the inside scoop, Twitter users who likely watched the number vanish before getting a chance to dial the digits began hypothesizing who Michelle could be attempting to put on blast by sharing the number.
As a kid, I could never be completely present with them: I resented them for all the times they were busy and couldn't treasure the quiet times, never knowing when another job was going to make them disappear again.
But while policy makers were busy trying to stop corporations from using this particular ploy, the endlessly creative club of elite tax advisers was inventing a new way to circumvent the ban, this time through the use of partnerships.
The employee from Tennessee said that in the past, they felt that managers had more input in such situations, that exceptions could be made for, say, an employee who clocked out late because they were busy with a customer.
While Paul Pierce was warming up for a soon-to-be loss against the Jazz, the team where he made his legend—the Boston Celtics—were busy at work, taking down the Wizards in their Second Round Game 1.
While Armie Hammer and Luca Guadagnino were busy hugging and Rita Moreno went to town on all the snacks, McDormand tried to track down the golden, dickless man she won for her turn in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
But in the first weeks of the year's new lawmaking sessions, some legislatures were already racing toward opposite visions, as those controlled solely by Democrats were busy pushing liberal measures and those ruled by Republicans were advocating conservative agendas.
Before the first ball was served at this year's United States Open, tournament officials were busy trying to address the extra noise that caused disruption in Ashe Stadium last year after its new $150 million roof had been installed.
While we were busy taking the fight with ISIS where its fighters live, exerting our military might against them in the Middle East, its leadership was forging new platforms online for recruitment, education, training and command and control operations.
NEW YORK, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Activity in Apple Inc options were busy on Tuesday ahead of the iPhone maker's quarterly results, split between investors expecting the stock to recoup recent losses and those looking for protection against a further drop.
But while we were busy thinking about Dany and Jon's incestuous hookup and trying to figure the logistics of how a zombie Viserion could breathe blue fire without dying, a seemingly flippant but potentially game-changing conversation escaped our radar.
While Kate was painting bird boxes and making pizzas to be baked in an outdoor oven during her visit to the King Henry's Walk Garden in the London borough of Islington last month, her two eldest kids were busy at school.
On Tuesday morning, a team of climate scientists were busy setting up a mock Arctic base camp at the Swiss resort that is hosting politicians, celebrities, and the global economic elite for the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos this week.
In the move, Jewel lost all her friends, didn't see most of her family anymore, and found herself having to adapt to a new country and culture mostly on her own, while her parents were busy rebuilding their lives in America.
On Tuesday, as China's Yulin city kicked off its controversial 10-day dog meat festival, animal rights activists were busy working to shut down some of the vendors and slaughterhouses that are expected to kill some 10,000 dogs during the event.
It seemed that while the rest of the country had been starting families and getting fat for the last half decade, the two coasts were busy making careers, experimenting with drugs and online dating, not yet ready to stop being selfish.
His thumbs were busy in the days after Britain said Russia's government used a nerve agent, Novichok, in the streets of an English cathedral city in a bid to kill a former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia.
In 2015 and 2016, while the Kremlin-linked hackers known as Fancy Bear were busy breaking into the US Democratic National Committee's servers, another group of agents known as Sandworm was hacking into dozens of Ukrainian governmental organizations and companies.
Husky crews were busy on Friday working to clean up and contain the spill, and both company and government officials were hopeful that booms in the river near the village of Paynton would stop the flow of the oil mixture.
"We love our children very much and are happy that our family blooper, our family error there on television brought so much laughter to so many people," Kelly said seriously, while his two children were busy living their best lives.
Several activist groups including the Anti Police-Terror Project, Black Lives Matter Bay Area, Black Youth Project 100 Bay Area and the BlackOUT Collective had been awaiting Mr. Trump's arrival all week and were busy organizing the protests on social media.
While platforms were busy designing newly gendered emoji in 2016, the Unicode standard for each "neutral" emoji that didn't specify gender — back when the only "dancer" emoji was female and the only "police officer" was male — sat unused and unsupported.
By Thursday morning, Afghan security forces had cordoned off streets hundreds of meters from the site, and workers were busy filling in the crater left by the blast, as large trucks loaded with barrels of tar drove into the area.
In any case, clearly, while the rest of us were busy making our plebeian resolutions to lose weight, drink water, and generally be better human beings in 2017, Kim was busy crafting a few fresh fashion rules of her own.
In case you were busy falling through a bottomless hole for the past two days, people are flipping out about 49ers starting quarterback hopeful Colin Kaepernick not standing during the national anthem during Friday night's pre-season game against the Packers.
Dressed in identical in black suits, with lapel badges of former North Korean leaders, the two, flanked by Singapore police, were busy getting into the best position for Kim's arrival, setting up cameras in the middle of the cordoned-off road.
The commander's team of emergency response experts — veterans of Hurricane Harvey, the Oklahoma City bombing and other disasters around the country and abroad — were busy managing what amounts to a pop-up, multimillion-dollar city in the West Texas desert.
That was the question high school yearbook editors and their advisers had to ask themselves while they were busy gathering up mug shots of the seniors, quotes, and group photographs of the football team, the cheerleading squad and the chess club.
It was widely noted that the announcement was made in the hours right before Hurricane Harvey slammed the Gulf Coast, presumably with an eye toward minimizing the negative media coverage of the pardon while journalists were busy reporting on the storm.
While the white hikers I'd shared the Appalachian Trail with from Georgia to Maine were busy planning their next adventures, each day in America under the new administration served as a reminder of the myriad ways I'd never be one of them.
Reid and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds were busy creating the Boomerang soundtrack, and it was taking them a long time to come up with the song, so "Whitney went in and finished the song with them" and earned her first writing credit, Crowe recalled.
"I didn't want to bother him after I was done with my workout late night, and it was virtually impossible to contact him during day time as his hands were busy massaging people and he did not answer my calls," he said.
While the rest of her Sex and the City cast mates were busy beefing on Instagram, Cynthia Nixon was quietly gearing up to run for governor of New York—and on Monday, she made her bid for the state's highest office official.
Last night may have been all about celebrating the Coen Brothers' new film Hail, Caesar, but it was hard to truly appreciate the film's cast full of handsome leading men on the red carpet when their wives were busy totally stealing the show.
But while participants in the Nathan's event were busy cramming their faces with all-beef dogs, those who will head to Buffalo for a new addition to the Major League Eating calendar this weekend will be in for something else entirely: kale.
While Republican leaders were busy most of the day Thursday trying to rally House support behind the GOP-proposed American Health Care Act, President Donald Trump met with some of the trucking industry's biggest names, and their dialogue focused on health care.
While teams like the Kings, Hawks, Ducks and Blues were busy beating each other up, the thinking went that the Caps would have a relatively easy path and arrive in June with at least a little bit still left in the tank.
The source said that some of Fortes' forces were busy fighting a small band of communist insurgents in a nearby town when some 503 militants overran Marawi City on May 23 after a botched military raid to capture their leader, Isnilon Hapilon.
The two media workers, dressed in identical black suits, with lapel badges of former North Korean leaders and flanked by Singapore police, were busy getting into the best position for Kim's arrival, setting up cameras in the middle of the cordoned-off road.
The pastor encouraged audience members—many of whom were busy pleading for an encore—to come work through their doubts and questions at his church; he assured us that they welcomed open discussions—that's why they'd brought in Bazan for this show.
While Kate Middleton was painting bird boxes and making pizzas to be baked in an outdoor oven during her visit to the King Henry's Walk Garden in the London borough of Islington on Tuesday, her two eldest kids were busy at school.
S. trade as Trump flies to Japan * Market pares bets for half-point Fed rate cut in July SYDNEY, June 27 (Reuters) - Asian markets were busy going nowhere on Thursday as confusion shrouded the chances of any progress in the Sino-U.
"The early parts of both days were busy but ongoing store traffic wasn't stellar, and it wasn't consistent from store to store, or mall to mall," NPD Group's chief retail analyst Marshal Cohen said, noting that the holiday season had just begun.
BEIJING (Reuters) - As President Xi Jinping gathered together leaders from almost all African countries for a summit in Beijing in recent days, some former Chinese officials and state media were busy mounting an unusually strong defense of China's role in the continent.
Some of the women told The Journal that they had tried to avoid having to give Mr. Wynn massages by hiding in bathrooms, or entering fake appointments in record logs to make it look as if some of their colleagues were busy.
But no, its minions in the House of Representatives were busy on Wednesday getting committee approval for a bill that would make it impossible for states to impose their rules about carrying concealed weapons on people who are visiting from someplace else.
The inspector general found that this pattern was not intentional, but that explanations — such as that the agents were busy with the Russia investigation at the time and that "the Carter Page FISA was a narrow aspect of their overall responsibilities" — were unsatisfactory.
Bezos and his group of top senior executives, called the S-team, were busy answering tough questions from employees who are worried about some of the biggest challenges facing the company, according to a recording of the event obtained by Business Insider.
Like my own, many of the families that I grew up with during the mid-1990s were busy reconciling the way that this city was often depicted in film and in media: worlds removed from the reality of the lives we were living.
While many were busy mocking Trump's intense admiration of the fantasy painting, some took note of a blurry-faced woman who appears in the background of this image and "The Democratic Club," a similar painting by Thomas that features Obama seated with Democratic presidents.
While the cops were busy digging through her bags of allegedly stolen merch, the woman unbuckled her seatbelt, slipped out of her handcuffs (without even puking up a key), wormed her way into the driver's seat, and sped off in the stolen police SUV.
In addition, it was a solo mission for Kevin as his siblings Kate (Chrissy Metz) and Randall (Sterling K. Brown) were busy preparing for their own life-changing moments: she's expecting her first child and he's getting ready for a new job as a councilman.
So it's alarming that at the end of September, Congress failed to renew CHIP and other healthcare programs before their funding authorizations ran out, because Republican leaders were busy with an ill-advised last-ditch attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The stock market has been in a slump since October, but if you've been socking money away for a rainy day in an old-fashioned savings account, some good news has quietly bubbled up while you were busy freaking out about your pot stocks.
When we announced the DPA had force in ocean waters, people expected the space billionaires would get involved, but with all the extra funding pouring into NASA and the remaining data centers turned over to crunching escape trajectories rather than clickthrough rates, they were busy.
Which makes it slightly strange that while we were busy rejecting the advances of Skrillex, Porter Robinson, and Deadmau5, we were simultaneously deciding to gorge ourselves obese on the supersized slop that Guy Fieri shovelled down his engorged gullet on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
" He also tweeted:"The Do Nothing Democrats were busy wasting time on the Immigration Hoax, & anything else they could do to make the Republican Party look bad, while I was busy calling early BORDER & FLIGHT closings, putting us way ahead in our battle with Coronavirus.
S. trade as Trump flies to Japan * Market pares bets for half-point Fed rate cut in July By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, June 27 (Reuters) - Asian markets were busy going nowhere on Thursday as confusion shrouded the chances of any progress in the Sino-U.
Molly Forgey, a spokeswoman for the Nevada Democratic Party, said she was not aware of the long lines at this location, but the turnout was high in a lot of places and she had heard of a few other early voting stations that were busy.
I think the reason why it's only got better is because they didn't really try to get the technology right, (they were busy lifting the plot of Superman III), rather, they spent time and effort making the cultural aspect a pretty in-tune caricature.
The truck driver statement is likely to in reference to comments by the Puerto Rican Governor a week ago that workers including truck drivers hadn't shown up to work because they were busy caring for their own families and communities and communication didn't exist to contact them.
While some Instagram users were busy arguing about whether or not these Pistachio Oreo Thins would be better on a golden Oreo Thin rather than a chocolate one — for the record, this writer is team Chocolate — the Junk Food Aisle quickly posted yet another nutty Oreo announcement.
"They took our bags thinking there was gold or money in them and as they were busy checking the contents, we fled through the houses taking advantage of the pitch darkness," said the woman, who is now in an area under the control of the security forces.
While US President Donald Trump and his British counterpart were busy making peace after Trump's bombastic interview with the UK's Sun newspaper, Melania Trump was trying to make a small flower pin during an arts and crafts session at the center, this time among school children.
During a recent visit to the exhibition, I never encountered the owl—whose existence I learned of in a handsome, diagram-laden brochure that Cheng designed—but the dogs were busy dodging laptops, furniture, and a Brancusi sculpture, which floated by as they swam in the lake.
Now, for years, we were not taken seriously, and we didn't particularly care one way or the other because we were busy, but for the last three years, the University of Northern Arizona has been using our panels for teaching, and that makes us extremely happy.
I don't like birthdays, really, so I was fully prepared to maybe ask a few friends if they wanted to go for a pint later that day, fully prepared to pretend not to care that they were 'busy' and 'really sorry' that they couldn't make it.
When our Filipino friends came over to our apartment to spend time with us the last night of our trip, us girls were busy dying our hair all sorts of wild colors we found at this beauty shop in one of the malls, virtually ignoring them.
But while LA2024 officials were busy selling their glittering vision, Rio representatives delivered a sobering reminder of some of the drudgery that awaits the 2024 winner as they tried to defuse a growing list of concerns from Zika virus carrying mosquitoes to budget cuts and flagging ticket sales.
Here's where it gets really interesting: When those eggs were reintroduced to the rest of their clutchmates, who were busy developing in relative silence, it appears that they somehow transmitted the information -- namely, that some kind of danger was near -- to those who didn't hear the warning calls.
The great sleek American bureaucracy, the thousands of suited government wonks who make it their business to appear to know about absolutely everything, are vaguely aware that Margaret Thatcher rose from the grave while they were busy caring about more important things, to lead her country once more.
Republicans Forced to Hastily Rewrite Tax Bill, Inch Toward PassageGOP senators were busy amending their version of the party's tax reform plan Thursday night after analysis by the independent Joint Committee on Taxation showed it would not boost the economy as much as predicted and massively raise the deficit.
San Juan Journal SAN JUAN, P.R. — On an island where 373 percent of the electric grid is down, water systems are compromised and soldiers were busy rushing food to hungry people in the mountains, David Diaz was taking a moment to clear his head by standing on it.
Closely tied into the Northern Virginia tech world—his friends were busy founding a company called America Online—Warner helmed a venture capital fund and was a key figure in an elite social group known as Capital Investors, which brought together the area's tech leaders for monthly startup pitches.
The Astros hired Dusty Baker and the Mets promoted Luis Rojas to manager, but the Red Sox were the last to fill their vacancy for two reasons: They are also being investigated by M.L.B. over charges of sign-stealing in 2018, and they were busy trading their franchise player.
And while so many people were busy stanning Chrissy Teigen's comfort cooking and making celebrities out of the Bon Appétit test kitchen crew, a sleeping giant of celebrity chefs was lying in wait, slowly building up a fanbase with her low-res but immensely joy-bringing kitchen content.
When Sprint executives were busy trying to claim that eliminating a major competitor somehow boosts competition, T-Mobile executives like CEO John Legere were trying to claim that the mega deal would be a great boon for employment numbers at the fused company: That promise is notably empty as well.
Trump may have also been unwise in sharing humiliating descriptions of Baghdadi's final moments, considering that hundreds of ISIS soldiers have reportedly escaped prisons in northeast Syria when the Kurdish forces were busy defending themselves against attacks from Turkey in the wake of Trump's abrupt decision to withdraw American forces.
While you were sunning yourself, sipping on rosé, and celebrating America's birthday, Garrett Gerson and April Liang were busy launching YSTR, a new womenswear label whose mission is to combine inspiration and knowledge from the past, present, and future into clothes you'll love — with honest pricing and zero waste to boot.
Over the past two years, while many of Brazil's traditional political parties and powerful kingmakers were busy defending themselves against corruption allegations stemming from the investigation known as Lava Jato, Mr. Bolsonaro flew around the country, drumming up support, particularly among young men, and in comparatively wealthier and whiter areas.
Tuesday, and Brandy Weston, 34, and her husband, Greg Weston, 45, had already gotten their voting out of the way, and were busy loading boxes of fruit onto the back of their pickup outside of their produce stand in Ashville, a little town a few miles from Mr. Moore's polling place.
While you were busy perusing Sephora's latest and greatest, one up-and-coming beauty brand was quietly staking its claim on all things acne-related, past and present: You may remember the internet-breaking Peace Out Acne Dots, which according to the brand, sold out within two weeks of launching.
Right around the time that the Philadelphia 76ers opened the festivities at Barclays Center by selecting Markelle Fultz, as expected, with the top overall pick, the Minnesota Timberwolves were busy making the evening's biggest splash by acquiring the All-Star swingman Jimmy Butler in a trade with the Chicago Bulls.
Behind the gates of the factory, surrounded by a hospital, a shopping mall and high-rise apartment blocks, workers and bulldozers were busy on a recent visit tearing down furnaces as part of a 143 billion yuan ($214 billion) plan to move to a new industrial park 2100 kilometers (214.6 miles) away.
"They said get over there and set up an evacuation," Henke said, motioning toward the knot of relief workers, national guardsmen, and state and local police who were busy at work in a mall parking lot feeding evacuees and preparing them for transport on school buses, troop carriers, and even dump trucks.
While members of the Beyhive were busy lauding their idol online (who, for the record, had just attended the March 2 premiere of Beauty and the Beast with her daughter, Blue Ivy), they were inadvertently pitting two outspokenly feminist women against one another — who, offline, actually have zero problems with each other.
While many Styles fans were busy wrapping their heads around the fact that they were seeing him in such an intimate space, performing new material, and basically living out his rock-star fantasies, they didn't expect one of Fleetwood Mac's leading ladies to take the stage alongside the newly minted solo star.
At this point, you have to be a truly fanatical practitioner of bothsidesism not to see that Trump is every bit as terrible a human being, and every bit as much a menace to the republic, as some of us warned when all the cool kids were busy snarking about Clinton's emails.
It was not just the social media and marketing departments that were busy: Sam Allardyce, the Everton manager, revealed that "five or six" of the players on his squad to face Leicester City had dispatched their agents to him that morning to ask if they might be allowed to leave on loan.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Ohio-based company faced fines and penalties if it failed to complete maintenance of a generator in Pennsylvania, and its workers who were members of an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) local were busy with a separate key project.
While you were busy taking cold showers or slathering petroleum jelly over high-strength topical steroids to quell the symptoms of your red, itchy, and deeply painful skin condition, a recent Facebook post offered an unlikely addition to an eczema routine that worked wonders on her baby's skin: Lush's best-selling Dream Cream Body Lotion.
While Donald J. Trump spent much of the week in Cleveland, where he accepted his party's presidential nomination at the podium of the Republican National Convention, some members of the Trump Organization were busy in Manhattan with a different set of furniture: four metal benches inside the lobby of the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.
And while Mr. Horowitz obtained no documents or testimony showing that the inaccuracies stemmed from any political bias — as opposed to incompetence and negligence — he also rejected as "unsatisfactory" the explanation that the agents were busy on the larger Russian investigation and that the Page wiretap order was only a small part of their responsibilities.
" During installation recently, workers were busy erecting dozens of narrow white plinths, to accommodate another of the pair's most beloved works, "Suddenly This Overview," a series made over 30 years of humble, unfired clay sculptures depicting, in encyclopedic fashion, hundreds of scenes from history and culture, both significant ("The First Potatoes Arrive in Europe") and mundanely silly ("Mr.
I know you were busy doing your job to hear everything that came out of the Sarah Sanders press conference, but we are getting different stories as to that Donald Trump Jr. meeting, one that first apparently talked about adoption issues with the Russians, and now we&aposre told the president was dictating points to his own son.
Sufficeth to say that a lot of people die, and somewhere, Brad Pitt is shaking his fist at his TV muttering about World War Z. But what was most striking to me was that while the men were busy having existential crises in the middle of a bloody battle (I'm looking at you Clegane), women were getting shit done.
You had people with little understanding of phone design checking it out next to people who have been reviewing gadgets for a decade, so you got things like people removing a film that shouldn't be removed, while others were busy noting Samsung had left a gap between the display and the hinge that debris could fill.
Regardless of who is responsible for Trump's policy roadblocks, one thing is clear: As the president hunkered down at the White House and Mar-a-Lago, trying fruitlessly to bend the government to his will, grassroots organizers were busy building a political network that mirrors the rise of the anti-Obama "Tea Party" movement in 2009.
Photo via Mo-G on Instagram While Drake and the OVO Sound roster were busy over the weekend with a surprise showcase at SXSW, Toronto rapper Mo-G, creator of the "Ginobili Dance" popularized by Drake, decided to air out the camp—particularly OVO founder and Drake's co-manager Oliver El-Khatib—for not giving payment over undisclosed work.
While Mr. Horowitz did not find evidence to confirm Republican conspiracy theories that the Russia investigation and surveillance of Mr. Page were a high-level plot to sabotage Mr. Trump for political reasons, he rejected as unsatisfactory the excuse that the officials working on the applications were busy and referred all of them for internal investigation.
Roy Cooper of North Carolina pleaded with residents of the northeastern portion of his state to stay in their homes and stay off the roads, residents from the South Carolina coast down to Florida were busy removing boards from windows, reopening businesses and beginning to clean the gigantic mess that the storm's western bands had left behind.
Yet on a torrid Saturday in August, while mayors in the South of France were busy enforcing a burkini ban that has since been ruled illegal, Nailah Lymus and Jaharrah Ali, both hijabis (women who cover, in the Muslim tradition), were modelling at a photo shoot in Tribeca with The New Yorker staff photographer Pari Dukovic.
Though the country's government officially recorded only 24,915 rape cases in 2012—a per-capita figure actually below the global average—the world's media outlets were busy detailing an apparent pandemic of Indian sexual violence, pointing chiefly to a series of gang rapes headlined by the fatal assault of 23-year-old student Jyoti Singh on a Delhi bus.
While Trump and Congressional Republicans were busy celebrating the passage of the tax bill, Leo Beletsky, Dan Ciccarone, and Nabarun Dasgupta were putting the finishing touches on a report that argues America's opioid epidemic is "fundamentally fueled by economic and social upheaval," which stand to get worse in 2018 following the passage of the tax bill.
While Van Riper spent the next year navigating new roommates and freshman poetry classes, researchers at the Gladstone Institutes were busy reprogramming her blood cells into stem cells and then neurons, growing them in incubators by the million, and sending in Crispr systems to try to cut out a troublesome mutation lurking on the short arm of her longest chromosome.
"People tried to talk him out of it and he would not be dissuaded, so I ended up writing it on a Friday night because the lawyers were busy working on things that were actually going to pass," she said, adding that Mr. Conyers's article was destined to fail because senior leaders of Congress had, in fact, been consulted on the bombing.
But an important shift was underway: At a time when Mr. Trump's lawyers were urging him to cooperate with Mr. Mueller and to tone down his Twitter feed, the president's fiercest allies in Congress and the conservative news media were busy trying to flip the script on the federal law enforcement agencies and officials who began the inquiry into Mr. Trump's campaign.
At that point, the Go-Go music community existed outside of mainstream anything for decades; Jeff Nelson and Ian MacKaye built Dischord Records in their house so they could independently release Teen Idles' Minor Disturbance EP. Inspired by the feminist movement, Kenney and Gendall were busy making the No Scene Zine; and it was natural for them to want a place for their scene to come together.
While most people were busy obsessing over the royal wedding, Shaffer and a group of her closest friends, including actress Dianne Agron, Vogue editor Selby Drummond, W Magazine style director Sara Moonves (and daughter of CBS exec Leslie Moonves) and founder and CEO of Hill House Home, Nell Diamond, were celebrating her upcoming nuptials to Francesco Carrozzini at the exclusive Hotel Esencia in Tulum.
While Alabama Republicans were busy voting, Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was letting everyone know that he would not be seeking a third term.
And while the rest of us were busy tearing our hair out over Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the unemployment rate dipped to its lowest level since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, the Dow hit another record and trade disaster was averted when a new Nafta agreement was reached by Mexico, Canada and the U.S. All of which is to say that you're right.
As Americans were busy preparing for the holidays, President TrumpDonald John TrumpMnuchin knocks Greta Thunberg's activism: Study economics and then 'come back' to us The Hill's Morning Report - House prosecutes Trump as 'lawless,' 'corrupt' What to watch for on Day 3 of Senate impeachment trial MORE's lawsuit to repeal the Affordable Care Act moved forward, once again putting the health care of millions in jeopardy.
There's a group of white people who left the suburbs and the Midwest for those much-maligned coastal elite cities to experience community and create new economy jobs and invent absurd artisanal mayonnaise, and while they were busy swiping on their phones through the faces of people just at the other end of the bar, they could and should have been talking to their cousins and uncles back home.
It's easy to imagine that the boy who believed that the Hitler diaries were real, that his mother and Mr Lucas the neighbour were busy "fixing the boiler" in the middle of the night, and who grew up into a man convinced that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, would have read the Leave campaign's promises about more money for the NHS on the side of a bus and cast his vote for Brexit.
Either way, if you're looking for a way to escape the drama, the holiday weekend is a perfect time to catch up on all the TV you've missed while you were busy watching even more TV.  You probably want to skip the psychological thrillers and true crime mysteries when your fam is already making you homicidal, so we've compiled a list of shows as comforting as warm apple pie and candied yams.
If you grew up in Britain, chances are you were busy drinking WKD at the park, trying to make sure your fringe had no gaps in it and memorising a poetry anthology for your GCSEs (I'm sorry but can we all agree that, however meaningful, "Search for My Tongue" is a horrible, horrible poem.) Other parts of the world will have contained different rituals, different outlets, different ways of navigating the weirdness of that bridge from youth to adulthood – an experience which is also universal.

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