This is a New York story with just about everything in play: political manipulation, fierce amounts of money, cascades of pious statements about immigrants and people with disabilities, crackles of ethnic and racial tension — and the grand absurdity of allowing officials from hundreds of miles away, with no personal stake in these issues, to play a deciding role.
And, of course, Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan, making a welcomely dry return to Episodes; though it has to be said that this show still amounts to a fierce amount less than the sum of its parts.
"The lightning was fierce, the amount of water pouring down that day was incredible, and the whole group was found dead at the scene, placed as they usually are, huddled into a group, with some standing in two lines on the side and a larger congregation in the middle," he said.
"The reaction here was fierce, just a tremendous amount of finger-pointing and yelling and screaming," Dyke recently told me.
Supermarkets and food suppliers, already under fierce pressure over the amount of sugar in the nation's food, could have done without more revelations about the health consequences of the food we eat.
Both Brady and Sullivan had maintained their innocence throughout, with the latter proving a fierce critic of the amount of police time and money that was put into the investigation, which began in April 2007.
A growing consensus among academics suggests that the midpoint of around 16 billion barrels is a fairly realistic punt enough, at today's production rates, to last for 30 years.A second, fiercer, feud is over the amount of tax the North Sea would generate during the early life of a new Scottish state.
Of course there has been fierce debate among Russians — and no small amount of outrage — over the cost of the Games.
In the era of fierce competition Supply Chain Management (SCM) has gained enormous amount of importance.
A real-world version of the "Resident Evil" video game coming to Universal Studios Japan this summer will arm theme park visitors with a gun and a limited amount of ammunition in a fierce battle against attacking zombie hordes.
