As the big shock to confidence recedes and people become less worried about the economic outlook, precautionary saving may become less intense.
Similarly, postal workers in another country are going to be less worried about being held accountable for not returning a letter from far away, as they are probably less likely to face complaints and have someone calling up their boss and demanding to know where their letter is.
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He also is less worried than others about cannibalization of sales of the larger iPad.
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Teenagers worried more or less equally about their appearance, school work and exams (49% and 48%).
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As NPR's Julie Rovner reports, the legislation should make people less worried about being tested.
But despite the more upbeat economic assessment, the Fed also sounded a bit less worried over inflation.
Overall, economists have become less worried about the job-destroying effects of a modest hike in the minimum wage.
The payoff for consumers is easier access to new auto loans today, since lenders are less worried about bad loans.
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"At the end of the day, investors are less worried about the monetary aspects of a potential settlement, " he explained.
"I am less worried if (Joshua) is near water because he has the basics of how to swim, " Haynes said.
Paradoxically, Mr Portman's move suggests that the Bush administration is less worried about congressional protectionism than it used to be.
Abolish planning restrictions far more than has been done and be much less worried about building on the Green Belt.
According to a recent study by the Conference Board, top executives are less worried about the global economy today than they were in 2008.
They are less worried about politics than about feeding their large families.
The operators are less worried about Nokia's push into services this time around because their own efforts to build mobile portals largely failed.
But there's another, more sympathetic explanation why European leaders seem less worried about Europe's fiscal cliff than America's: they just don't see an alternative.
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Yet the Fed has seldom seemed less worried by the outlook for prices, perhaps because energy costs seem likely to fall sharply in coming months.
In other words, investors are becoming less worried about extreme events.
Given these constraints, let me talk to you in general about things that would make me feel more or less worried about the episode you describe.
Esrailian says he was worried initially that less tech-savvy patients would have difficulty using a tablet, but he says the app's format makes it accessible for everyone.
Western intelligence services are less worried about the growing cost to global shipping than the possibility that the pirates may link up with, or turn into, Islamist terrorists.
Meanwhile, the banking commission is less worried by Credit Suisse than by conglomerates with a heavier insurance component, such as Zurich Financial Services and Swiss Life, both of which own Swiss banks.
Moody's, another rating agency, says it was less worried by the absence of covenants last year than by the more aggressive use of borrowed money (in particular, bank debt) in private-equity deals.
But Jurij Bajec, an economic adviser to the Serbian prime minister, says that several indicators in the past few weeks are making him a little less worried than he was two months ago.
Palin's friends should be less immediately worried about what the Obama campaign will do to her than what the McCain campaign will do.
Prior to agency pricing, Amazon often sold best-selling digital books for less than it paid for them, a marketing stance that some publishers worried would make the emerging digital-books marketplace less appealing for other potential retailers.
But some Italian bankers are worried that foreign banks would be less inclined than domestic ones to lend to Italy's vast number of small companies.
Some fear cooking, worried that their homemade efforts will be less than sophisticated, or worse, flavorless.
When the Wave Hub was announced, Cornish surfers worried that it might make their tubes less gnarly.
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