With more than 80% of Americans enrolled in a health-care scheme, competition to recruit new members has become intense.
It's no wonder that the pitched fight for control of the lucrative drug trade has become more intense as Mexican law enforcement has tried to put the squeeze on drug lords.
This anxiety has become increasingly intense in recent years due to political uncertainties.
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Ashcroft said the investigation has become more intense in recent weeks, but he refused to call Steven Hatfill -- a former federal scientist whose home has been searched as part of the investigation -- a suspect in the case.
But during the mayor's third term, the NYPD's so-called stop-and-frisk tactic has become a source of intense criticism and litigation in the courts.
As summer ice in the Arctic has declined in recent years, the area has become the subject of intense interest from oil and gas companies.
The Oscars may still be seven weeks away, but already it has become a huge and very intense guessing game.
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Quasi-formal campaigning has become much longer and more intense since the 1970s, when party reforms made primaries the sole mechanism through which presidential candidates were selected.
Social media has become so important that journalists are getting intense training on how to blog and use Facebook and Twitter.
What is unfortunate within the Democratic Party debate is that an increasing populist domestic policy of pleasing labor unions has become paramount while (which becomes more intense as the competition between the two candidates turns more intense and uncertain), highly important issues of national security and foreign policy are being pushed to the margins.
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As befits what has become Jamaica's natural party of government, competition is intense.
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