The top 10 winners were chosen after intense rounds of interviews with leading scientists in Washington.

This time, however, he came out on the losing end, defeated after 14 intense rounds.

The Romanians are engaged in the intense round of politicking leading up to the Nov. 21-22 Prague meeting.

Germany acted as a mediator between Israel and Hamas in an intense round of negotiations last year which came close to bearing fruit.

The cost of the project has also been rising, leading to an intense round of renegotiations.

She works hard, she said, but the experience is still a relief from her increasingly intense international orchestral rounds.

In fact, North Korea's nuclear brinkmanship is provoking intense rounds of discussion, but not of the kind that it is expected to like.

Battling Charge of Optimism The new estimates come after an intense round of number crunching, using what officials called conservative projections.

Whoever wins next week's Presidential election will have to immediately launch an intense round of diplomatic negotiations.

In some years, the result has been an intense round of races on both sides to select the boats for the final series.