A year ago, the Nets stepped into the Fleet Center for Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals and into a vicious din, the rivalry having grown heated.
Yet since the start of the year protests to stop construction work on a new airstrip for American marines at Henoko, a pristine beach on Okinawa's main island, have grown heated.On land, scuffles have broken out as security personnel remove protesters ever more forcefully.
After the publication of the map of those with gun licenses in the Journal News, conversations have grown heated from those who fear for their safety and others who defend their right to own a gun and store it in their homes.
Indeed, as Shanghai's urban heat island has grown, heat-related mortality rates have increased.
The political warfare has grown so heated that most other major state business has ground to a halt.
With less than one week before Hewlett-Packard's shareholders vote on March 19, the proxy battle has grown increasingly heated.
And as there have been fewer factories to lure since the economy turned sour two years ago, the competition for old-folks-to-be has grown more heated.
The race has grown so heated that Mr. Molinaro started a write-in campaign on the Independence Party line, which had been given to Mr. Straniere.
