For another, the strain of the previous night, and of the hectic and nerve-racked morning, were beginning most definitely to tell on me.

WHAT would happen if the Dow Jones industrial average fell 250 points one hectic morning?

We'd had an unusually hectic morning, and I was sitting at my desk, frantically trying to calculate the effect of the morning's trades on the overall position.

By lunchtime yesterday, a hectic morning for Mr. Rowe had calmed considerably.

"Frankly I just like animals," Mr. Borofsky said the other day, taking a break from a hectic morning of installing the work.

It's a typical hectic morning, at the beginning of a typical jam-packed day.

He's thoughtful, calmly conservative, nonpompous, decisive and was accessible to me over the phone on the hectic morning after 9/11.

The windows were wide open, and outside a gentle breeze rushed through the trees and soothed the rough edges of a hectic morning.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 1.12, at 3,040.92, after being up as much as 11 points during a hectic morning.

"They looked fine in training and we had quite a hectic morning where it was quite intense."