Spain, however, expressed its concern.
Caerphilly council expressed its "concern and disappointment".
"China expresses its resolute and vehement opposition".
It also expressed a preoccupation that, in places where health professionals have little knowledge or experience of the disease and its control, the diagnosis of CD will be missed and left untreated.
Chu also expressed other preoccupations about immigration as it relates to Asian-Americans.
For the creator of "My Martha Stewart Page," even the "extremely anal" quality of Martha's expressed preoccupation with the appearance of her liquid-detergent dispenser can be a learning experience, a source of concern that becomes a source of illumination: "It makes me worry about her.... Of course it is just this strangeness that makes me love her.
Of these, "The Blackwater Lightship" -- a finalist for the Booker Prize that was made into a film for television earlier this year -- is the best known, although "The Heather Blazing" (1992), whose protagonist is an emotionally remote Irish judge, has best expressed Toibin's preoccupation with the theme of tragic lack of self-awareness -- at least until now.
Rutherford was Baptist with a strong faith and expressed a "deep preoccupation with propriety and morality" in her textbooks, criticizing "authors who openly portrayed sexuality or themselves lived in ways Rutherford found immoral".
It is let down, however, by its preoccupation with the mechanics of storytelling.
Its preoccupation with internal problems helped spare it the worst of America's subprime-mortgage fiasco.
