Perhaps most worrying, the crowd seemed keener on Sarah Palin than on their own senator.
Yet, the celebrity culture masks one of the most worrying trends in society in recent years.
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Most worrying of all, perhaps, is its lack of investment banks and venture capitalists.
Perhaps most worrying of all, Labour has still to decide what kind of devolution Scotland will get.
Perhaps most worrying of all, even some on Mr Sarkozy's own side are starting to query his judgment.
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For American workers the most worrying thing about all this is the flight of brain-intensive jobs to India.
Among the most worrying reports of looting has been the loss of radioactive material at Iraq's main nuclear site.
From the army's point of view that was not the most worrying thing.
But perhaps the most worrying new trend is that developing countries are retaliating with anti-dumping actions of their own.
Yet in some ways it is precisely these contrasts that are most worrying.
Most worrying is Astra's inability to create a pipeline of promising new drugs.
Perhaps most worrying, with the exception of Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, the worst-affected states are also among India's least capable.
Most worrying, the budget ignores the knotty problem of Italy's feeble growth.
But perhaps the most worrying of all these findings is the suspected link between Chlamydia pneumoniae and atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
Perhaps the most worrying consequence of the past two years is that declining revenues have forced oil companies to cut their exploration budgets.
The most worrying has been the case of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister who now languishes in prison on a seven-year sentence.
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One of the most worrying schemes, announced earlier this month, was a plan to force financial services firms into six big financial groups.
Duncan Jones (groin) and Bowe (hamstring) were taken off as precautions ahead of the Heineken Cup, Jones' injury thought to be the most worrying.
What is most worrying about Mr Thaksin is the contempt he has repeatedly shown for the workings of both the commission and the court.
The most worrying aspect of the current slowdown is that it is more synchronised around the world than at any time since the 1930s.
"The most worrying thing is people bumping into them, " he said.
Analysts said the drop in exports to China was most worrying.
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And, then, there is to me the most worrying: the adamant rejection by Islamabad of any assistance from the state-of-the art forensic teams of the FBI and Scotland Yard.
Black men are twice as likely to be out of work at all skill levels (and, most worrying, the second generation is faring just as badly as the first).
So has the UK. Most worrying of all, there are now clear signs that the recovery is losing momentum, not just in America but in China, India and Brazil.
At the moment the most worrying distortion is that the low return on bank deposits is fuelling asset-price bubbles as households seek higher returns by buying shares and property.
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Most worrying of all for Detroit, much of the new capacity is aiming at the one part of the market where the big three made serious money in the 1990s.
The first night of surveillance was the "most worrying" as Fulcher was concerned Halliwell might take his own life because what he had done was weighing heavy on his mind.
Most worrying for Mr Abbas was the fact that the ringleaders of the recent trouble hailed from his own Fatah party, which provides the bedrock of the PA's security forces.
The most worrying part of the GE Capital study is that Britain's mid-sized firms have lower exposure to markets outside Europe than do their peers in Germany, France and Italy.
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