That was before he pitched atrociously down the stretch, heightening concerns about his back.
The credit market worries came on top of heightening concerns about economic growth in Europe and the United States.
Industrial production fell 0.8percentt in October -- the sharpest decline since September 2001, heightening concerns about the health of manufacturing, a new government report showed today.
By raising expectations for growth next year — along with heightening concerns about the size of the deficit — the tax-cut compromise has complicated the Fed's bond-buying strategy, which was devised over the summer.
The prisoner took 43 minutes to die, heightening concerns about the increasingly experimental way that states are conducting lethal injections and about the mounting wall of secrecy they are erecting around the sources of their drugs.
Some representatives of human rights groups observing the trial are critical of that arrangement; more so after a lawyer for one of Mr. Hussein's co-defendants was slain the next day, heightening concerns about security.
T-Online International of Germany, Europe's biggest Internet service provider, lost its third senior manager in a month, heightening concerns about management upheaval and sending the stock down 5percentt.
The prisoner took 43 minutes to die, heightening concerns about the increasingly experimental way that states are conducting lethal injections and the secrecy around the sources of their drugs.
Debt to foreigners now exceeds $6.5 trillion, and this flood of greenbacks abroad is driving down the dollar, heightening concerns about the solvency of U.S. financial institutions and pushing up the price of gold.
North Korea fired four banned ballistic missiles toward Japan early Monday, drawing international condemnation and heightening concerns about the rapid pace of Pyongyang's illegal missile program.
