Harried students and parents should welcome these steps toward a more sensible process.

The characters: Harried mother with two young children in tow.

Harried moms, make time for one more thing: a new book club to discuss parenting books.

Harried workers may eventually become wise to hazards of fast food, just as many people have done with tobacco.

Harried friends may appreciate a complete holiday meal that comes fresh, not frozen.

Harried shoppers are often at a higher risk for identity theft during the busy holiday season.

Harried nurses barked orders for the pharmacy to send more drugs.

Harried superstore managers with thousands of products to shepherd have no room for losers.

Harried staff served a line of people.

Harried nurses scurried back and forth, trying to attend to the heeds of the patients.

Harried businessmen, growling into their cellular telephones, were forced to cancel meetings.

Service: Harried and inept upstairs; far more professional downstairs, although occasionally snooty.

Harried miners had to physically chop and grind the rubble in order to find crystals large enough to be saved.

Harried crews were scrambling to restore power.

Harried messengers arrived at midtown skyscrapers to deliver packages but found evacuated buildings.

Harried clerk: Try the psychology section.

Harried hostesses will find a store that is a bit like China Machado herself.

Harried police officials concede the full spectrum of crime engages greedy groups and gangs of criminals.

Service: Harried but dear.

Harried crewmen battled another fire.

Harried seniors facing deadlines on theses often take a gut to lighten an otherwise oppressive course load.

Harried waiters, wearing open white shirts and befuddled expressions, lunge around the dining room trying to keep up with mounting orders.

Harried press aides could not specify how many of the 6,000 journalists work for print or electronic media, nor exactly how many countries they represent.

Harried committees work four days straight, interviewing applicant after applicant for precious few college-teaching slots.

Pros Harried city dwellers appreciate Shelter Island's friendliness.

"You will not harry them for the days of the bargain."

The other army, if one could use the word for what looked more like a mob, was trying to harry them.

Prosecutors must determine if they want to continue to harry him.

Orders had been to harry the enemy, rather than close with him.

He used this as a base from which to harry the Vikings.

In a siege there is nothing else to do: harry the other side, and wait.

"We are to stay here in case they send a small force to harry the north.

The food here is excellent, though the service can be harried.

The woman who answered the door was young and harried.

The only moving things were those harried by the wind.

I told the men along the banks not to come back, but stay to harry the march between the hill and the river.

But put to such trouble, they could grow furious and harry our whole world.

I think of their men always harried and exhausted from being on the make.

He seemed like a different person, much older, worn and harried.

We harry them, and they make no forays-but there is great power in their hands.

I must harry him along the trail before he gets fat."

They might even be harrying me toward some sort of a trap.

"Put them across the river and harry them south for an hour."

They may harry us until we kill them all.

The two soldiers still mounted harried them on from behind.

They would harry and harass me until Jay found out.

We will also harry and terrorize those who supply them.

But it is very good indeed, even if service can be harried and distracted at times.

It has to harry the government to take a less relaxed view on international nuclear proliferation.

They'll spend themselves on us by day, and by night we'll harry them.