Again, research shows that parents should spend less time worrying about what they do wrong and more time focusing on what they do right, worry less about the bad times and build up the good times.

As public anxiety has abated, and senior officials have felt less pressure to show that they are doing something, the most flagrant abuses have declined.

The Organization of the Islamic Conference found that trend to be most disturbing, as 23 of its 57 member States were LDCs.

While each of these shocks may not qualify as the proverbial tipping point, the combination and the context are disconcerting, to say the least.

Noting with concern that a number of developing countries, in particular the least developed countries and commodity dependent developing countries, have not fully benefited from the global economy and trade liberalization,

For, although globalization spins off a lot more winners than losers, many people are worried, and worried people press their leaders to slow things down.

Representing a least developed country, my delegation is deeply concerned that the challenges and problems faced by the least developed countries and by other disadvantaged groups received little attention in the Secretary General's report.

There were no tsunamis or earthquakes in West and Central Africa, thank God, but the number of people suffering there is no less impressive or unpleasantly disturbing.

As public anxiety has abated, and senior officials have felt less pressure to show that they are doing something, the most flagrant abuses have declined. But such practices are still being applied to a lesser degree, and they can be pulled out of the arsenal whenever political or social conditions dictate.

Worryingly, Copenhagen 2 will not only have to navigate this complicated terrain, but it must do so in less than five years.

The increasing use of extrabudgetary resources was worrying because it might result in a budget which did not reflect the development agenda of the developing countries, in particular the least developed countries.

High Anxiety

Remaining deeply concerned that all countries, in particular developing countries, including the least developed countries and small island States, face increased risk from the negative impacts of climate change,

So concern about Iran s nuclear program is still justified.

The worst thing we can do is say, jeez, I got enough to worry about without worrying about an asteroid.

So we don't have to worry about our products being sold, for example, for less money in places that are poor, and then they get re imported into the U.S. for example, with the drug industry.

Remaining deeply concerned that all countries, in particular developing countries, including the least developed countries and small island developing States, face increased risks from the negative impacts of climate change,

Remaining deeply concerned that all countries, in particular developing countries, including the least developed countries and small island developing States, face increased risks from the negative impacts of climate change,

Remaining deeply concerned that all countries, particularly developing countries, including the least developed countries and small island developing States, face increased risks from the negative impacts of climate change,

Remaining deeply concerned that all countries, in particular developing countries, including the least developed countries and small island developing States, face increased risks from the negative impacts of climate change,

less than

Subjects of concern

C. Subjects of concern

Perhaps the Chinese should not worry.

It is more than a mere concern.

It is considered less risky because some of its assets are less risky than others.

Less of an Ass

Here one encounters less collective hope and less individual fear.

The Committee is concerned that the board has not yet been established.

Why India is concerned

Principal subjects of concern

Oh, I really am worried. Wow, there's so much anxiety.

We are concerned at the general inertia existing in the entire disarmament machinery.

5. Notes with deep concern

The jury is out but there is reason to be concerned.

Yes, there is ample reason for concern.

C. Principal subject of concern and recommendations

Principle areas of concern and recommendations

The Committee is concerned that

These concerns were to be expected.

But the bill is far more alarming than that.

5. Expresses concern that, in five departments and offices of the Secretariat, women still account for less than 30 per cent of staff, and encourages the Secretary General to intensify his efforts to meet the goal of gender balance within all departments and offices of the Secretariat

5. Expresses concern that, in five departments and offices of the Secretariat, women still account for less than 30 per cent of staff, and encourages the Secretary General to intensify his efforts to meet the goal of gender balance within all departments and offices of the Secretariat

4. Expresses concern that in four departments and offices of the Secretariat women still account for less than 30 per cent of staff, and encourages the Secretary General to intensify his efforts to meet the goal of gender balance within all departments and offices of the Secretariat

Anxiety levels may have come down, in board rooms and stock markets, but the daily drama for survival continues. Indeed, for many people it has deepened, in the villages and streets of the world s least developed countries particularly in Africa.