"No matter how noisily the US may cry out, we will take it as no more than a dog's barking at a moon". Even if the reports are part of a new whispering campaign, it would be a sign of heightened pressure.
Interserve, which provides a range of services for schools, hospitals and government departments across the UK, agreed a £300m rescue plan in March, at a time of heightened pressure on the outsourcing sector and in the wake of Carillion's collapse under a mountain of debt.
This was to provide a powerful incentive for heightened pressure group activity.
While Mr. Winterkorn may find himself under heightened pressure, he retains a powerful ally in Ferdinand Piëch, a former chief executive of Volkswagen and a member of the Porsche family.
We use a scheme given in Fig. 4 where water is in a container, and air is inserted into the water through a tube with a porous material, so that a heightened air pressure outside the water is supported by a plunger.
As expectations grow and an agenda develops, the senior staff will feel heightened pressure, particularly in change agent environments.
Making other people a priority is perhaps most challenging for emerging leaders—especially women and minorities, who may feel heightened pressure to protect their interests in a world that seems (and often is) rigged against them.
The efforts reflect a broader campaign by University of California officials, who unveiled a systemwide plan last year to combat sexual misconduct amid heightened pressure from the White House and federal authorities to do so.
In the US, which has a long history of commercializing university research [ 28, 29], the heightened pressure to work with industry is perhaps best exemplified by President Obama's 2011 State of the Union address where he unveiled his 'Startup America' initiative [ 30] and called upon the research community to help stimulate the economy [ 31].
And because Medicare remains on a path that is fiscally unsustainable over the long term, there is heightened pressure to improve its payment methods, as well as its management and oversight of program operations and patient care.
Even during this period of heightened pressure, Community Solutions felt it had to turn down such a major donation.
