Even as Congressional lawyers and other aides were still drafting the measure, a broad array of industries and interest groups scrambled to calculate winners and losers in the final stimulus deal and in some cases engaged in fierce down-to-the-wire lobbying efforts for further adjustments.
As we respond to questions, a helicopter flies over carrying a giant sack of water to quell yet another forest fire, and I think of Winnie's line in the play: "With the sun blazing so much fiercer down and hourly fiercer is it not natural things should go on fire never known to do so".
And, in the south especially, there's more evidence of centuries of Arab rule: there's fierce heat (down to a pleasant 20C average in October), dust, wrenching flamenco coplas (songs) playing in shops, bars and taxis, and you can see Africa from the beaches.
At City Opera, Maria Kanyova attacks Violetta with a will and negotiates the role's hurdles with a kind of fierce vivacity, down to a brief but solid high E flat at the end of "Sempre libera" in Act I. Since the start of this revival in September, she has been joined by some new men in her life: Grant Youngblood, who should be a fine strong Germont, and Eric Fennell as Alfredo.
Jumping in the air and making fierce angry down-the-field gestures at the top of his leap.
The cyclone's fierce winds downed many trees, stripped vegetation, and coated leaves in damaging salt spray, leaving the islands with a browner hue in the aftermath.
The latest storm, which hit the region beginning Tuesday, has so far killed more than 60 people and left thousands homeless as fierce winds downed power lines and swollen rivers swallowed roads, houses and bridges in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
More fierce protests shut down the campus for five days in 1989.
In the hotel lobby, a tall security man with a fierce mustache swept down and tugged at the hem of his cassock.
A fierce sun beats down on Swakopmund for most of the year but, combined with the welcome Atlantic breeze, it has become a popular seaside resort.
