Word: concerningly
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...problem brings the trouble of rising deficits and falling GDP and tax collections closer to the U.S.. The largest purchaser of American Treasuries, China, has already voiced concern about the profligacy of spending that is part of the plan to pull the U.S. out of a deep recession. If China cuts back its purchases of Treasuries, even a bit, interest rates on paper issued in the future could move up substantially...
...receipts are already running well below the Administration's forecast. The interest rate that the government will have to pay for money may go up as investors become less comfortable with the federal deficit. The Chinese government, which is the most important single purchaser of US paper, has expressed concern about the profligacy of American spending. No one can tell what the Omega is for government borrowing, but that will certainly be tested over the next year...
...management officers turned on Wei and beat him to death. On the Chinese Internet there were widespread calls for the officers to be harshly punished and the system reformed. For a while, it seemed like there was hope. A group of more than 100 chengguan leaders called for "deep concern and reflection...
...killers were handed sentences ranging from three to six years in prison. Wei's widow, Zeng Jingfang, calls the verdicts an injustice. And she notes that even after her husband's death, little has changed. "Similar cases of chengguan violence continue to happen," she says. The "deep concern and reflection" only led back to the sanguinary status quo. But as the economic slowdown puts further pressure on the chengguan, China's city-management officers may finally be forced to manage themselves...
...killing 85. Experts say H1N1 is mildly virulent and comparable to that of seasonal flu, but very contagious. "We have no way of forecasting what's going to happen in Tokyo. But it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time," says Cordingley. A major concern expressed by the WHO is that even if the number of new flu cases flattens out as the end of the flu season nears, another more virulent strain of the virus could return this winter...