What's more, an environment in which national security is of heightened concern to voters has historically tended to help Republicans.
And screening for depression, which is of heightened concern for LGBTs.
Pregnancy is a finite time interval during which the health of the baby is of heightened concern.
When your business is web dependent, security is also of heightened concern.
"People have given up hope that the new [Obama] administration will be able to do anything to make things better quickly," says Willem Sels, a credit strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort.Banks are still the subject of heightened concern.
There was no discernible sense of heightened concern in Times Square on Monday, although Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said at a midday briefing that more police than usual were stationed in the area.
Another indicator of heightened concern is the increasing cost of insuring European bank debt through credit-default swaps, which rose to records, said Otis C. Casey, director of credit research at Markit.
Last night former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell, who is a member of the Commons intelligence and security committee, and former Conservative immigration minister Damian Green, both warned that pulling out of the EAW would be a disastrous move at a time of heightened concern over terrorism.
They also would be defying a majority of the Parliament during a period of heightened concern about making European institutions like the central bank more democratically accountable.
At a time of heightened concern about rape and related crimes in the armed services, he's being welcomed as someone with insights into the problem.
