There are people in business suits from all over Europe, sitting around circular tables, looking harried.
While never actually starving, he spent at least two decades of his working life harried by a lack of cash.
Atlético's players had chased and harried and, until that dramatic late flurry of goals, they had refused to allow Ronaldo to show himself to be the single most important occupant of this football pitch.
After several years in the west as a campaigner against corruption – he strongly criticised Britain's decision to halt a major corruption investigation into BAE, its biggest arms company – Anwar returned to Malaysia, where he has harried the government ever since.
Mr Field harried the government to make good the 10% tax losses; he carried on harrying it after Mr Darling made desperate but skimpy concessions.
IT HAS become a lot less comfortable to be an American with an undisclosed offshore bank account in recent years, thanks to the federal prosecutors who have harried foreign moneymen and lawyers suspected of aiding tax evasion, particularly in Switzerland.
The consumer paradise they display, with perfect hair, light-skinned children and men in pinstripe suits, stands in stark contrast to the harried, shuffling crowds below.
The guests complained, and the hosts looked harried.
They offer long, relaxed consultations with their customers (exactly the sort of "good bedside manner" that harried modern doctors struggle to provide).
In sweat-stained shirts, fuelled by stale coffee and cold pizza, harried officials worked the phones and held emergency meetings with other bankers to discuss whether to save this bank or to let that one sink all before markets opened on Monday.
In her poignant lead story, a harried mother having a torrid affair gets away for a dirty weekend.
