Recently, with fiercely increased competition for admission to the better colleges, the "common app" essay has become an obsessive focus on the part of high school administrators, parents and students.
Allocation to the most popular Foundation Schools is fiercely competitive, and with increasing applications from non-UK graduates, there is more emphasis than ever before on maximising one's overall Foundation Programme score.
But with a Jewish daughter-in-law whom he fiercely protected and with his increasing cantankerousness, he fell afoul of the Nazi hierarchy and had by the early 40's retreated to his Alpine home in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, softh of Munich.
They quarreled fiercely about art; Van Gogh felt an increasing fear that Gauguin was going to desert him, as a situation he described as one of "excessive tension" reached crisis point.
Women remain a striking minority in top corporate echelons, even in fiercely egalitarian countries like Sweden or the increasing meritocracy of the United States.
This India, who hasn't benefited from increasing employment opportunities and economic growth, fiercely resists the changing gender norms.
And he explores the increasing difficulties experienced by traditional Arab leaders facing "fiercely anti-Western, anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist beliefs" among their own people.
He opposes the Keystone Pipeline project to exploit Canada's Tar Sands, opposes increasing the retirement age for working people, and fiercely opposes cuts in Social Security and Medicare.
The tech industry is fiercely lobbying Congress to increase the number of high-skilled immigrant visas, and has teamed up with advocates of immigration reform to push through the still-frail bill.
Instead, they represent a fiercely nationalistic and secular current and feel threatened by what they see as Erdogan's authoritarianism and the ruling party's increasing focus on Islamic strictures.
