Investors will be listening intently today when he speaks at a White House conference on the economy.
American satellites have watched North Korean nuclear activity intently since late last year, when the North evicted international inspectors.
Ten years on, he was competing just as intently yesterday in a key league match against South Devon.
In conference rooms at her downtown headquarters, the chief federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Mary Jo White, listened intently last summer and fall as the key witness in her investigation of Senator Robert G. Torricelli, the New Jersey Democrat, went over his story again and again.
They watched the World Baseball Classic intently this month, cheering on their countrymen in their quest to compete with major leaguers (Cuba was eliminated in the second round).
Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, the executive and artistic director of Carnegie Hall, watched intently on Jan . 18as an iron column the size and color of a tree trunk was extracted from its place under the main auditorium.
The C.I.A. had been listening intently over the July 4 holiday last year, after what one investigator called "a lot of static in the system suggesting something was coming".
But she made art intently from the early 1930s until the late 1960s, when poor health interceded.
Microsoft and its lawyers were undoubtedly pleased that the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit focused as intently in this week's oral argument on the behavior of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson as on the company's own misconduct.
To listen to her in the mixed zone afterwards, inches away from a heaving scrum of reporters who would struggle to win a race in their own bathtubs, was also to be reminded that, at 19, she has been building intently towards this week for a long time.
