I asked Miliband if Obama's protracted ponder worried the Brits.
Mr. Ouattara's government and international observers in the deeply divided country also worry that protracted public investigations could set off new rounds of violence.
But residents in some small communities have struggled, and at the same time, U.S. experts worry that protracted global warming, worsening droughts, vanishing groundwater and growing populations will erode future supplies and make Americans increasingly vulnerable throughout the 21st century.
A speaker led one group in singing protest songs while other students, worried that protracted demonstrating would affect their grades, did their homework on the streets.
Those who worry that a protracted slowdown looms could find supporting evidence in the export figures.
"They are the backbone of a system every New Yorker relies on every day, and now they can focus on their critical work, instead of worrying about a protracted contract dispute," said Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
(Although various Democrats across the country — including those raising funds for the convention in Denver — have worried that this protracted primary race is siphoning off dollars from other needy pockets.
He said that he was more worried about a protracted slowdown and not being able to cut deposit rates than about his swaps.
They worry that negotiations would become protracted once even a limited state was declared, and that international attention would shift elsewhere.
