21.   Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.

22.   Some department officials said an intensive lobbying effort ensued afterward.

23.   Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that the intensive lobbying effort made the legislation the most difficult element of the Republican contract to adopt.

24.   Starting in September, that should change as the city begins an intensive effort to cut down on truancy, school officials said.

25.   Texas schools launched an intensive effort to boost achievement and instituted broad testing to track academic progress.

26.   The chancellor recommended an intensive effort to recruit teachers for bilingual programs and for programs of English as a second language.

27.   The loss, discovered late last week, was enough to sink Barings despite intensive efforts by the Bank of England to mount a rescue package over the weekend.

28.   The most intensive effort, however, is focused on the Tokai region southwest of Tokyo.

29.   The rediscovery inspired an intensive effort to save both the Jamaican iguana and the dry tropical forest of the Hellshire Hills that is its last redoubt.

30.   They were able to counter what he described as an intensive effort by India to win backers.