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Originally Posted by guthmund
I've been scratching my head for half an hour now and I cannot see any possible situation where the distinction between 'time-poor' and 'busy' would be useful. For that matter, I can't see that there is a distinction to be found between the two words.
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Busy you are already familiar with and can be used in a wide amount of situations that I'm sure you're mostly aware of so I'll focus on time-poor. When I think of time-poor a situation with a deadline comes to mind. It's not that you are too busy to complete the project (you can devote all your time to it) it is that the situation is time-poor. In other words even working on that project 24/7 you will still not have enough time to complete it by the deadline.
Note: Notice I'm only defending a distinction between busy and time-poor, and not defending the way the word may have been originally used when the OP heard it. I am all against creating words just for the purpose of confusion to hide the fact that it's really an increase in taxes, or a company going out of business, etc.