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The show started filming in Israel over the summer, but was forced to abandon the location as political tensions escalated.

Matters escalated from there, with threats of a strike and a lockout making headlines throughout the summer.

We saw how such provocative actions only inflamed passions and escalated the unrest.

As the Ebola epidemic began sweeping through the region, fear and mistrust of the health workers in West Point escalated.

This summer, clashes between Indian and Pakistani troops have escalated along the ceasefire line in Kashmir.

For more than 15 years domestic spending had soared as Federal programs multiplied, and the expense escalated annually.

Financial burdens, however, escalated rapidly between 1886 and 1911.