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busy and president
The vice president sometimes assumes some of the ceremonial duties of the president, such as attending functions and events that the actual president may be too busy to attend ; the Vice President of the United States, for example, often attends funerals of world leaders on behalf of the President.
Since becoming president of the BRDC in 2006, Hill says he has abandoned the guitar, being " too busy doing school runs and looking after pets.
Despite a busy professional career, throughout her life she continually took an active interest in aspiring young actors by supporting local amateur drama societies, as well as being the president of the Chiltern Shakespeare Company until her death.
As for the ' Liberals ', they were too busy fighting among themselves that even former liberal president, José Francisco Barrundia had joined Rafael Carrera.
The president, possibly busy with the duties of his office, did not understand the importance of what he had received and returned the papers to Pratt via a White House staffer, with instructions to receive no further papers.
* Sept. 7, 1928-Capone's former consigliere and Unione Siciliane president, Antonio Lombardo, was gunned down during a busy Chicago rush hour, at State Street and Madison Street, apparently by the Aiellos.
Whereas the Oberpräsident ( upper president ) was the government-appointed representative for the province, busy with implementing and supervising central prerogatives of Prussia.

busy and with
There have been cooing doves, chattering magpies, thieving jackdaws, a proud peacock, a silly goose, and a harpy eagle -- whom I was silly enough to mate with and who is now busy tearing at my vitals ''.
At that time, he afforded me the courtesy of his busy workday for such length as I may need, to speak about my background, my hopes, my views on various national and local topics, and any problems that I may have been vexed with at the time.
After a supper of unagi ( rice with eel -- eel which is raised in an ice-cold pond at the foot of Mt. Fuji ), I returned to my beautiful room to sleep as hard as possible to be ready for another busy day.
I waited until the parking attendant was busy with a customer, then slipped around the back of the car with license number JYM 114, attached the electronic bug to the rear bumper and walked out.
Doc Abel was busy up front with some of his live patients.
While he was busy with the burial ceremonies for his brother, the Danes defeated the English in his absence at an unnamed spot, and then again in his presence at Wilton in May.
As Steve Wozniak, the creator of Integer BASIC and the only person who understood it well enough to add floating point features, was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft, who was the BASIC vendor of choice after their success with Altair BASIC, and licensed a 10 KB assembly language version of BASIC dubbed " Applesoft.
This allowed other Macintoshes on the LAN that were waiting to print to display status messages indicating that the printer was busy, and what the job was that it was busy with.
But at the time of the premiere of Figaro, Salieri was busy with his new French opera Les Horaces.
Large buildings and complexes rose in nearby Albufereta and Playa de San Juan, with the benign climate being the biggest draw to attract prospective buyers and tourists who kept the hotels reasonably busy.
*" It is well that people busy themselves with the study of the Law and the performance of charitable deeds, even when not entirely disinterested ; for the habit of right-doing will finally make the intention pure " ( Pesahim 50b ).
Ship traffic in the area is seasonally busy with cruise ships.
Other systems used the Viewdata protocols made popular in the UK by British Telecom's Prestel service, and the on-line magazine Micronet 800 whom were busy giving away modems with their subscriptions.
The privateer-turned-pirate Henry Jennings and his followers decided, early in the 18th century, to use the then uninhabited island of New Providence as a base for their operations ; it was within easy reach of the Florida Strait and its busy shipping lanes, which were filled with European vessels crossing the Atlantic.
Ivinskaya later recalled, " He phoned almost everyday and, instinctively fearing to meet or talk with him, yet dying of happiness, I would stammer out that I was " busy today.
The area of Berkeley was at this period mostly a mix of open land, farms and ranches, with a small though busy wharf by the bay.
From October 1840 until January 1843 he was in Paris, busy with the treasures of the Bibliothèque Nationale, eking out his scanty means by making collations for other scholars, and producing for the publisher, Firmin Didot, several editions of the Greek New Testament — one of them exhibiting the form of the text corresponding most closely to the Vulgate.
In a busy summer, Powell brought in 19 new players and after a successful season, on 14 April 2012, Charlton Athletic won promotion back to the Championship with a 1 – 0 away win at Carlisle United.
There he remembered not having anybody to talk to, as his parents were busy and he had little in common with his brother.

busy and problem
One solution to this problem is to use a series of interlocks that allows stages to indicate that they are busy, pausing the other stages upstream.
For example, if a customer encountered a reorder tone ( a fast busy signal ), it could indicate " all circuits busy ," or a problem in the destination exchange.
During busy periods this has led to patients being made to wait outside in the ambulances in which they arrived, leaving the long wait time problem unsolved but removing the ambulances from service.
Specific examples of uncomputable functions are known, including the busy beaver function and functions related to the halting problem and other undecidable problems.
The " computer " as a whole would have to be able to keep all of the CPUs busy, asking each one to work on a small part of the problem and then collecting up the results at the end into a single " answer ".
However, the problem was on manual exchanges the calls were answered first-come-first-served, which meant on busy exchanges, emergency calls could be delayed.
At the same time, Severo Ochoa was busy working on the coding problem with the help of Leon Heppel, a skillful biochemist capable of making artificial RNAs of defined compositions.
As Thor is busy in the Asgard home galaxy in " Ripple Effect ", Kvasir visits Earth in Thor's stead to help Earth fix a problem with alternate realities.
As all of the controls were located on the right, and had to be operated while sighting through the telescope, another problem with the Norden is that the bombardier could only adjust either the vertical or horizontal aim at a given time, his other arm was normally busy holding himself up above the telescope.
Colley goes on to say that the Society was also busy trying to solve the problem of finding enough native timber for the building of ships.
The men turn to Ray Adams ( LL Cool J ), a restaurant meat delivery trucker, to solve their problem, paying him to keep Eva busy and out of their respective lives.
Being very busy, Charlie fails in helping to teach his father the engineering material, as all he does is solve the thermodynamic problem set from this class for him.
This problem can be made worse by busy periods, for example where everyone wants to arrive at an airport as soon as it opens for the day.
His quality American bank currency attracted attention of the Royal Society who were busy addressing the problem of massively forged English notes.
Compounding the problem of air quality is the fact that air-borne pollens have been found to attach themselves to diesel particles from truck or other vehicular exhaust floating in the air, resulting in heightened rates of asthma in areas where busy roads bisect densely populated areas, most notably in poorer inner city areas.

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