This matters because asset-allocation rules prevent many big institutional investors from buying bonds that lack an investment-grade rating, and the rate of interest that firms must pay on new debt can rise alarmingly on mere worries that they might lose their investment-grade status.
And although the plenitude of affordable cashmere has made it a favorite of designers and consumers, the cashmere industry is actually in crisis, with stockpiles of the raw fibre sitting unused in Chi-nese warehouses, and with cash-mere companies worrying about how to afford to keep their machinery running.
They all come with dodgy, mildly transgressive videos of, say, Britney in a bath, which you can't help worrying are mere frames away from being illegal and presumably cost pennies to make.
Don't delay the pipeline over mere carbon worries will be the essence of it.
Still, Mr. Calderón has had mixed feelings about the global success of "Neva," worrying that it would become a mere "formal, co-opted objet d'art".
KENT, ENGLAND — Britain's worrying relationship with its own children was, until recently, of mere passing interest to me.
It is worrying because it relies on the idea that individuals are mere economic units, there to serve the economy, rather than the other way around.
Having said that, this was no mere kickabout, don't worry about that.
Wasn't he worried his mere presence might have made the undecided come down against another foreign adventure?
And of course, Ukip's public school-educated leader, Nigel Farage, believes it mere common sense to worry about Romanians moving next door.
