Caltech neuroscientist Christof Koch speculates that the apparent slowing of time in emergencies may come from the power of intense attention to reduce the duration of individual frames.
Otherwise, taxpayers would face intense pressure to reduce their tax burden in any way possible and would generally succeed: enough, anyway, to break the system.
Under intense pressure to reduce costs, accelerate the pace of innovation, and improve quality, automotive designers and engineers are now looking for ways to parcel out the design of their complex electro-mechanical system.
Many cities, including Richmond, are only now emerging from the recession and are reluctant to increase budgets to aid the poor, particularly amid the intense pressure to reduce public spending in Washington and in state capitals.
Those charges underscore concerns of current and former officers who say that CompStat, which has been credited with bringing down major crimes, has created intense pressure to reduce crime each year and has led some supervisors to misclassify major crimes.
They are putting UFJ under intense pressure to reduce its bad loans by next March, and will be very cross if they catch the bank doing this by cooking its books.
And in this age of managed care, the intense pressure to reduce health care costs has reduced the number of people admitted to hospitals and shortened hospital stays, which means more care is being administered by family members who are unpaid and, in many cases, untrained and unprepared for what is newly expected of them.
I am, rather, with Shakespeare's Miranda, who, harrowed by the vision of a shipwreck, cries, "O, I have suffered / With those I saw suffer!" There is something disturbingly cold in Lucretius' account of pleasure, an account that leads him to advise those who are suffering from the pangs of intense love to reduce their anguish by taking many lovers.
The numbers suggested that the homeless population was still growing, even after a year of increasingly intense measures to reduce it, and that the city experienced an increase last year almost as great as in the previous two years.
"On the downside, management outlook comments are cautious near term, highlighting corporate frugality, while competition remains intense and a desire to reduce debt ongoing.
