But for the current crop of people hoping to become dot-anything entrepreneurs, there's an immediate concern.
"Our immediate concern is for those people in that neighborhood up there, " Mr. Alben said.
The more immediate concern is the need to keep the government operating after March 27.
Of more immediate concern was the DOMA fight, where the administration is squarely involved.
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Given the magnitude of the earthquakes, the immediate concern was that a large tsunami would be generated.
My most immediate concern is the situation in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, which is very serious.
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"Our immediate concern is with the injured fans, " Fox said in the statement.
But of more immediate concern are the economic implications of the Russian crisis.
"The health and safety of our residents is our immediate concern, " he said.
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That uncertainty is an immediate concern for the company's past and present employees.
Of more immediate concern than the possible future returns on as-yet-undeveloped gambling mechanics.
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But to the outside world, the question of most immediate concern is probably whether Islamic radicalism is likely to revive.
While this concern is certainly legitimate, the more immediate concern has been the treatment of millions of gallons of fracking wastewater.
Irish deputy prime minister (Tanaiste), Eamon Gilmore, said that like most people in Ireland his immediate concern was for the Pope's health.
The immediate concern of international institutions should be to avoid a calamity similar to that which has befallen Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea.
MoveOn is trying to pull all American troops out of Iraq before 2008, making presidential politics a less immediate concern for the organisation.
Deflation is not an immediate concern for the Bank of England.
But the immediate concern, former Prime Minister Eyskens says, is that new credit restrictions could harm manufacturing companies at a time when European growth is stagnant.
The England coach's immediate concern centres upon who to pair up front as he is forced to pick his first team without retired striker Alan Shearer.
To drive this point home, allow me to highlight the effect that biodiversity loss will have on something that is of immediate concern to everyone: food security.
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Of immediate concern are plans to raise billions of dollars through a multinational offering of shares in a huge coal project, Tavan Tolgoi, also in South Gobi province.
Perhaps of more immediate concern to Mr Bush is the effect that the prisoner-abuse scandal and the continuing insurgency are having on his chances of re-election in November.
In addition to the size of Tuesday's blast, the type of fuel used to create the explosion will be an immediate concern to the U.S., South Korea and other nations.
The most immediate concern, however, is more quirkily Vietnamese.
"We certainly regret that the system failure affected tonight's event, we apologize to the racers whose cars were damaged, and our immediate concern is for the race fans, " Fox said in the statement.
But in "Drinkin' Problem, " Lori McKenna goes in a different direction, sidestepping the usual moralistic dimension in favor of getting under the skin of someone for whom the issue is an immediate concern.
Other issues, such as the number of website that are inaccessible to disabled people, and the prevailing digital divide were perhaps of more immediate concern to ordinary people, a spokesperson from Citizens Online had suggested.
The immediate concern for Asian investors is how profit figures will pan out as the region's companies start to release their year-end figures for June (or half-year results for firms whose fiscal year ends in December).
While many big retailers, consumer-packaged-goods companies, and logistics companies initially expressed great interest in RFID technologies, their immediate concern was how in the world would they ever be able to manage the unprecedently massive streams of data emanating from these new networks of things.
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