The American labor movement and the Fox administration have worked intensely to improve ties, partly because they share an interest in improving the lives of Mexican immigrants.
But this year, during the mayor's controversial bid for a third term, his advisers have worked intensely to get him to restrain himself and watch what he says.
The Yankees and the Mariners had worked intensely to complete a deal centered on Jesus Montero, the Yankees' Class AAA catcher, who is considered the prize of their farm system.
For three days now, since the strikes on Afghanistan began, they have worked intensely to fill what amounts to a daily menu passed down from senior commanders for the particular assortment of weapons that will be loaded onto the ship's warplanes and used in each strike.
It's gutting getting so close to something you've worked intensely hard for, and then losing that to forces beyond your control.
No one has worked on "Spider-Man" more intensely than Ms. Taymor, who is its director, one of its script writers, its mask designer and far and away its chief creative force.
NSABB chair Paul Keim, a microbial geneticist, says he cannot discuss specific studies but confirms that the board has "worked very hard and very intensely for several weeks on studies about H5N1 transmissibility in mammals".
But having worked so intensely with the Bianzhong, I appreciated a day off to stop, look, listen, think.
I came to that place in my career, which many people do at some point, where I had worked really intensely in the public markets, and then private equity, and I've seen business motivated strictly by shareholder profits.
