41.  Steve Engelhard, owner of Pro-Pride Inc. in suburban Norcross, has been busy screening people to expand the work force at his janitorial company.

42.  The people who pitched in are busy people for whom time is hard to come by, just as it is for any harried city dweller.

43.  The people who received the help are busy people, too, self-reliant New Englanders averse to asking for help and reluctant to accept it.

44.  Their purpose is to make exercise more convenient for busy people.

45.  There are about six million users of Palm devices, lightweight data managers busy people can use to keep their lives organized.

46.  There are shopping services for people too busy to shop and personal valets who fetch dry cleaning for people too busy to run errands.

47.  They are busy people, remember?

48.  To be sure, there are busy people famous for returning every call, among them Robert Strauss, the former Democratic Party chairman and former Ambassador to Russia.

49.  Too many busy people, transmitting nothing but attitude as they walked too fast on the sidewalks.

50.  Unfair to blindside busy people?