Farmers also worry about uncertain market demand, pointing to the big surplus that developed in 2001.
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But that was much slower than at the start of 2007, and the worry now is that demand from Europe has started to flag.
Even if scores continue to recover, the company may still have one problem to worry about: assuming demand increases as anticipated, how will they now deliver the necessary supply?
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But if I had a loved one who was another working reporter in Iraq, I would worry that agreeing to any demand would just encourage other kidnappings of reporters.
But given that higher energy prices generally boost inflation and shrink demand, it is not unreasonable to worry about the future.
As for the dollar, the reason to worry would be if a falling currency prompted foreign investors to demand higher yields on American Treasury bonds to compensate them for the risk.
This gives business managers an opportunity to improve budgeting for projects, without having to worry about utilization rates or idle hours if there is a gap in demand.
The worry on every steelman's mind is that as the growth in demand for steel slows from its recent hectic rates, the huge increase in Chinese production capacity will be diverted to turning out steel for export.
On the downside, worry about an oil supply disruption that both pushes fuel costs up while trashing demand for transportation.
For all the familiar signs of British economic frailty that are now making headlines, such as demand driven by consumption rather than investment, the biggest long-term worry is a different one: whether productivity growth, troublingly weak in the past few years, can revive.
Add in an anaemic recovery, at best, in America, and the worry that its economy might tumble off a fiscal cliff in December, and the outlook for external demand is bleak.
MSPs who had debated the bill in three parliamentary committees ignored Mr Dewar's demand to junk the bill, voting to carry on with it and let the executive worry about alternative means of debt recovery.
As the recovery slows, a growing number of people worry about a descent into competitive depreciation, as countries try to grab a bigger share of global demand at others' expense, a trend that could fuel protectionism.
Indeed, some economists worry that efforts to resolve Germany's supply-side problems may be worsening the economy's demand-side difficulties.
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