1.   Anecdotal evidence suggests the trend toward working vacations is more pervasive among harried white-collar workers.

2.   As the Internet economy matures, high-technology companies are expanding programs and policies intended to help harried workers balance their personal lives and the demands of work.

3.   His former boss and employees at the buildings where he worked said Forde was a quiet, friendly fixture, a bit of comfort for harried workers.

4.   People, blackened with dirt, sleep in squalid camps or plastic lean-tos on the street and fight for scarce food and water in camps staffed by harried workers.