(For kindergarten, Grace adds 16 spots, and gets about 250 applications: 6 percent again. Partly because of the intensifying demand, Grace is starting a high school next year).
The government's latest offensive came a day after the Arab League suspended a monitoring mission in Syria because of the intensifying violence, removing outside observers from around the country and in the process lifting a measure of restraint on a government intent on routing its opponents.
With the United States evacuating its citizens from Liberia because of the intensifying violence, Nigeria, whose military Government had strong business ties with Mr. Doe, rallied several other West African nations behind a regional military intervention.
On Tuesday, 86 Druse who were studying in Syria returned home to the Israeli-held side, about 10 days ahead of schedule, because of the intensifying violence in Syria.
The cautious optimism came after Moody's Investors Service pushed Cyprus deeper into junk status on Wednesday with a two-notch downgrade of its credit rating because of intensifying concerns that Greece would leave the euro zone, potentially raising the amount of money Cyprus would need to support its banking sector, which is heavily exposed to Greece.
Two decades ago, in studies like the Carter administration's Global 2000 Report, many experts were predicting that some 20percentt of the world's species at that time would be erased by now -- largely because of the accelerating, intensifying impact of humans on the landscape.
Mr. Rumsfeld made his comments the day after visiting American troops stationed along the Kosovo-Macedonia border and just hours after a Macedonian official said Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski will ask the Legislature to declare a state of war because of intensified fighting between government troops and Albanian rebels.
Secure tenure is becoming rare for executives in Europe's telecommunications industry, because of intensifying pressure from unhappy shareholders.
