Energy-intensive industries, especially, are concerned that rising electricity costs could damage competitiveness.
And 77 percent said they were concerned that rising health care costs would damage the American economy.
EDUCATION The new Council for the Defense of British Universities is concerned that rising costs are changing how British higher education is accessed.
"It is hard to look at these figures and not be concerned that rising inequality is jeopardizing our tradition of equality of opportunity.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that he was concerned that rising oil prices could lead to recessions that would hurt all countries, including the oil exporters.
South Korea's household debt declined for the first time in more than four years in the second quarter after the government tightened lending rules because it was concerned that rising defaults posed a risk to the financial system.
Both Democrats and Republicans are concerned that rising tuition is putting college out of reach for too many people – potentially blighting the country's future prosperity as higher education expands rapidly around the world.
Asked whether he was concerned that rising tensions in the South China Sea could see Japan and China clash militarily, the prime minister said the relative harmony of the past 40 years in East Asia must be maintained.
Meghalaya and other northeastern states are also concerned that rising sea levels will submerge much of Bangladesh and spawn a refugee crisis.
Claverie and Abergel are concerned that rising global temperatures, along with mining and drilling operations in the Arctic, could thaw out many more ancient viruses that are still infectious and that could conceivably pose a threat to human health.
Free market advocates are concerned that rising U.S. protectionism will signal a retreat from these principles just as Washington is losing influence to populists such as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
