More than a century of fire suppression has profoundly altered the Southwest's grasslands and forests, triggering woody encroachment in the former and allowing the buildup of extraordinary fuel loads in the latter.
This was another extraordinary LeBron moment — first the weeklong buildup, then the thousands who gathered here Thursday in front of the Boys & Girls Club to be part of "The Decision".
Mr. Maraniss's extraordinary breadth of reporting also encompasses the North Vietnamese buildup to the battle.
While accepting that sorting out the problems of Greece, Ireland and Portugal "posed extraordinary challenges", the IMF's Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) said the fund had missed the buildup of banking system risks in some countries and shared the widely held "Europe is different" mindset.
In the coming months it will have to prepare the markets for an eventual tightening of monetary policy as it unwinds the extraordinary steps it took to prop up the economy and the financial system and seeks to avert a buildup of inflationary pressures.
The buildup's very challenging".
