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Mr. Bloomberg's aides are working intensely behind the scenes promoting the idea of the mayor's candidacy and exploring the mechanics of starting an independent campaign.
But the union's proposal was finally brought to the owners, who spent two days in a hotel ballroom debating, lobbying and negotiating intensely behind closed doors.
The Obama administration pressed publicly — and did so even more intensely behind the scenes — for an inclusive government that would not disenfranchise Mr. Allawi's Sunni supporters and lead them to return to active or tacit support for the simmering insurgency.
The scandal over global interest rates has state officials like Janet Cowell of North Carolina working intensely behind the scenes to build a case for suing the nation's largest banks.
A generous takeaway from that hearing -- and lack of others -- is that Republicans are thinking about and working on health care plans much more intensely behind the scenes.
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They gazed intensely from behind a glass wall.
The second challenge, the "offensive response," has been discussed as intensely, but largely behind closed doors.
In the case of the campaign for We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, it reveals the desire of the public (or at least, Joan Didion's very devoted fan base) to connect with Didion, the intensely private person behind the books and essays, through the documentary and pledge rewards.
But the Rapture largely popularized by the intensely popular Left Behind book and film series, the latter of which suffered from a deeply dull Nicolas Cage-led reboot in 2014 remains a fundamental assumption of mainstream evangelical Christianity, the powerful religious bloc that just helped Donald Trump get elected as the next president.
He has the attention span of a small child — at one moment during lunch near his home in La Jolla, he clawed his spoon through his oatmeal, completely consumed with the process, and the next he was drawn intensely to the window behind him: "Look at that bird right there!
Everyone else in the room – I don't know who any of them are – wants it too, grinning intensely at her from behind the studio lights.
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