Israel and Hezbollah fought a short, intense war in 2006; it was an unexpectedly difficult fight for Israeli forces, which were surprised by the sophistication of Hezbollah's weaponry.
The move by Microsoft is the latest action in an intense war for dominance of the Internet search sector, now led by Google Inc. but coveted by such technology giants as Microsoft and Yahoo.
Import, import, import!" But the women had complaints, too, and it seemed, from dozens of interviews with singles across the state, from Nome to Juneau, in the southeast, that Alaska was embroiled in an intense war of the sexes.
The Northeast, with the exceptions of New Hampshire and possibly Maine, is also a stronghold for Mr. Gore, which leaves the states in or abutting the Midwest as the most intense war zone.
The brief, intense war that followed -- called the Yom Kippur War, after the Jewish holiday on which the fighting started -- is the subject of Amos Gitai's new film, "Kippur," which will be shown tonight at the New York Film Festival.
"Grand-sounding rhetoric on the sidelines, followed by an intense war, which is likely to produce local resentments and further alienate the world, is not going to either produce democracy, or ultimately increase Israel's security," he added.
Assassinations tend to hasten the end of intense wars (those with more than 1,000 battle deaths) but, prior to the second world war, made small-scale conflicts more intense.
These intense war-time riots are counted among the worst incidents of civil disorder in American history, with an estimated 119 participants and passersby massacred.
By vilifying one side over the other and turning everything into a fight, public policies become intense wars that will be be reversed once the other side comes into power.
The cameras cruise the Mephistophelean Fitch, tilted up toward his hollow magnificence and anointing him the Prince of Darkness, lording it over a techno-intense war room that seems to be from a Jerry Bruckheimer version of "The Sting".
An intense ad war is already shaping up there.
