Some Iraqis fear a setback as Mr. Bremer takes time to get acquainted.
According to Ms. Frost, there is increased pressure on students to succeed, and many fear a setback if they go overseas.
El Salvador and Guatemala have eagerly responded to the American effort by beefing up armies and military budgets, alarming human rights advocates who fear a setback to the peace accords that ended long and violent conflicts.
Lebanon and Iraq are each deeply divided along sectarian lines, and both countries teeter on a knife's edge as tensions rise between their ascendant Shiite populations who fear a setback if Bashar al-Assad falls, and the minority Sunnis in their own countries who support Syria's Sunni-led opposition.
A state agency's plans to install 10 temporary generators around the city to meet power needs next summer is facing staunch opposition, particularly in Queens, where community and business leaders fear a setback to development taking place along the waterfront of Long Island City.
Poppea is warned by her nurse, Arnalta, to be careful of the empress's wrath and to distrust Nerone's apparent love for her, but Poppea is confident: "I fear no setback at all".
Some analysts and investors said that they feared another setback and that the markets would remain volatile.
Fearing a setback in elections next year, the leaders of the main pro-Beijing political party here called today for the government to delay internal security legislation by more than a year.
A7 Beijing Delays Legislation The leaders of the main pro-Beijing political party, fearing a setback in elections next year, called for the government to delay internal-security legislation by more than a year.
On May 29, the day after Mr. Lubbers circulated his letter, Mr. Annan distributed an internal memo noting that United Nations investigators should be allowed to carry out their inquiries "impartially and without any outside interference," and saying that witnesses should not fear career setbacks for speaking out.
