This was because the just-in-time production schedule of the busy mass production automotive foundry involved did not allow for any interruptions to accommodate physical experimentation.
Here, train operators, conductors, station agents and other employees of the nation's busiest mass transit system, the New York City subway, practice for the worst.
The Staten Island Railway is one of the oldest elements of the nation's busiest mass transit system and predates the New York City subway by 44 years.
For all its efficiency in carrying large numbers of people along busy corridors, mass transit is not flexible enough.
The government, fighting to control the epidemic, has decreed that their bodies are contaminated, and so Haiti, again, is busy with mass graves, this one a little more than a half-mile from the mounds where tens of thousands of victims of the January earthquake are buried.
The recruiters are too busy filling mass job orders, that it becomes an administrative production line, leaving little time to consider "thinking outside the square".
He suggests I talk to Paul Halliwell, the headteacher of the St Bonaventure's Catholic School in East London, who's busy attending Mass when I first try to call.
Outside the cathedral at 11 p.m., a priest told me that his church in the Flores neighborhood was fuller than during his busiest Sunday Mass.
Instead, we are, collectively, busy producing fresh masses of life-affirming digital stuff: five billion images and counting on Flickr; hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos uploaded every day; oceans of content from 20 million bloggers and 500 million Facebook members; two billion tweets a month.
As if Dutch lord of the trance Armin van Buuren wasn't busy enough lifting masses towards the heavens on a nightly basis, the seasoned dance veteran launched not one, two, or even three imprints from his Armada Music endeavor this past September, but four sub-labels, each with their own distinct set of ambitions and aesthetic.
