In less than a year, president Hassan Rouhani must seek re-election, and his nemesis – the former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – is watching him closely, readying himself for a challenge.
I studied the photograph closely, quietly, ready finally to know her, or at least to begin.
The closely connected ready-made clothing industry has undergone considerable expansion, with heavy investment in new plants.
A month after central bankers around the world coordinated an unprecedented reduction in rates, the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, told a conference in Frankfurt that "policy makers will remain in close contact, monitor developments closely and stand ready to take additional steps should conditions warrant".
"Our report, which is close to ready, has been worked on closely with the Department of Cultural Affairs, which has done a bang-up job of responding to us.
Tyler Olsen, a recent Iowa Democratic party chairman who campaigned for Obama in 2008 and is now closely involved with Ready for Hillary, said the organisation had built connections in all of the state's 99 counties.
But he stressed that law enforcement agencies in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, already coordinating more than usual because of the holidays, were working even more closely, to be ready in case of an attack.
It added that the seven governments and their central banks -- from the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada -- would "monitor economic developments and financial markets closely," and stood ready "to take further action as necessary".
"If they're monitoring [the economy] closely and are ready to act, I think the market can take that as another [sign of an] inter-meeting move".
Fox, which has previously worked closely with Mr. Spielberg, appears ready to continue supporting individual projects.
