The minister of minerals and energy, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, spends much of her time trying to allay those fears.
Indeed, the fact that Dr Schön could, by his own admission, achieve some findings only 10% of the time helped to allay people's fears.
For several weeks, he and other officers have spent much of their time trying to allay fears, calm tempers and mediate disputes between Awakening commanders or between the councils and the Iraqi Army.
"The Fed is still stuck on that tightrope of trying to make sure they provide enough reassurance to keep the recovery going but at the same time try to allay the concern that they won't allow inflation to get going either," said Bruce McCain, chief investment strategist at Key Private Bank in Cleveland.
At the time, seeking to allay official Chinese concerns about pornography, Google designed a new search engine for Google.cn, its Chinese service, that would not pull up references to politically delicate subjects like Falun Gong, the banned spiritual movement, or the 1989 killings in and around Tiananmen Square.
Mr. Smith, who has had himself shocked in public with versions of his product seven times just to allay fears, said, "You have to lead from the front".
But that is quite a gamble to take.Two months remain before the election, more than enough time for Mr McCain to allay some of these worries.
We see no reason to hold the shares... Concerns over the sustainability of growth and value creation are not new, periodically resurfacing, but based on our analysis we do not expect these concerns to allay any time soon.
At election time, Zille was regularly forced to allay fears that the party would "bring back Apartheid".
But this time neither leader would be able to allay concerns of instability by securing formal agreements from many on the crossbench, as Gillard did.
