When Merck pulled Vioxx from the market, many doctors had been fretting for years that the arthritis pill might cause heart attacks.

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Now is no time for fretting and worrying at the frayed edges of the one relationship in which we rightly continue to place so much hope.

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Even as the sun shone this week, London's Olympics chiefs were still fretting about the potential for more rain.

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Germans are being told to believe in themselves and the things they stand for, rather than fretting over fiscal drag and social-security payments.

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The chaos in the markets on Thursday is bad news for investors prone to fretting about volatility, but it should be a boon to firms that evaluate portfolio risk.

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There was considerable fretting, in particular, about a weak outlook for the September quarter.

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As he climbs the corporate ladder, Browne wrestles with his public profile, constantly fretting that too much publicity will make him a figurehead ripe for attack.

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After worrying for years about excessive public borrowing, some economists are now, paradoxically, fretting about a shortage of debt instead.

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If all this is so, and if it's an annual pattern for the Yankees to field an elderly nine and then win 95 games, why does the fretting continue?

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