KABUL, Afghanistan — Despite deepening pessimism back home and disarray in the top American military ranks, officials insist that the buildup of soldiers in Afghanistan is beginning to show results: Commando raids over the last four months have taken scores of insurgent leaders out of action, in a secretive operation aimed partly at pressuring the Taliban to reconcile with the Afghan government.
Everyone else solving crimes on television these days — including Mr. Selleck himself, in CBS's "Blue Bloods" — seems to have ever-deepening back stories, savvy assistants and scripts that move briskly and cover a lot of territory.
Thomas describes his technique as "making an imprint on the mind and then going back and deepening that imprint".
With profits shrinking and the recession deepening, Japanese companies scaled back the amount of machinery they ordered in September.
"In the deepening dusk of a back alley near the railroad tracks," he writes, "the Constitution seemed like a faded idea".
This sudden spring was accelerated by a second social process, which also started a few years back: the deepening degradation of the Putin regime.
A personal trainer by day, Mr. Mejia — model-handsome with a lean, muscular physique — moonlighted as a bartender, and he attributed his deepening exhaustion and persistent back pain to long hours and little sleep.
Certainly, economic policy needs to nurture efficient domestic banking: for its own sake, and also because otherwise equity markets and other aspects of financial deepening may be held back.
Weak investment growth holds back capital deepening and hinders productivity growth.
With the characters in the Victorian formalwear that is de rigueur in Leontes's court, which is deployed against a backdrop of panels that are alternately solid burgundy and painted with figures in Renaissance style, the whole tableau is deepened by a back wall lighted an elegant blue.
Oprah Winfrey's OWN network is putting the sitcom "For Better or Worse" back into production, deepening the network's relationship with the creator, writer and director of the series, Tyler Perry.
