Close observers of his military say Syria is having trouble keeping its sophisticated and maintenance-intensive weapons functioning.
The thought of having to network for another month, to meet just another 20 people felt time intensive so I developed a referral system which encouraged people I knew, and trusted, to refer their single friends to me.
It would be hard to argue that compared to other central and eastern European post-communist countries, united Germany failed to establish justice for victims of the GDR: lustration and purges were comparatively intensive and extensive, without deteriorating into the kind of witch-hunts that Poland experienced a few years back.
It is understood that there have been intensive cross-party talks in recent days to finalise the plans.
Like many managers in non research-intensive universities, Talboys is frustrated by the City's fear of backing institutions without a Russell Group badge.
Obama's deputy press secretary, Eric Schultz, told reporters traveling with the president on Air Force One on Friday that the intensive lobbying campaign was "an initial reach-out" that would be followed by more detailed briefings.
Adam had gone to the match with his father, Eddie, who also passed out in the crush and who woke up on a ventilator in intensive care at Sheffield's Northern General hospital.
He then went to the hospital, found Eddie was in intensive care, and called at 1am to tell Janet, who came over to Sheffield with Adam's uncle Robert and waited at Eddie's bedside.
A programme of informal but intensive talks, once a week for up to two hours, follows.
England now enter their intensive second phase of the tour with the first of five one-day internationals in 15 days.
Finance is returned to its role as servant rather than master of the global economy; and we invest our taxes and encourage private savings into labour-intensive business opportunities that really protect the environment.
