But the potential for war, recession and higher gasoline prices have deeply unsettled auto executives, dealers, assembly workers and just about anyone else connected to the industry.
"We've had a series of contractors that came in, threw the workers out, and that unsettled their situations and left their families without income," he said.
Hours after the shooting, guests and workers at the hotel were still unsettled, and streets remained cordoned off into the evening.
When some do emerge en masse, determined to cause mayhem, as they did in Chicago this weekend, it leaves the well-heeled shoppers and office workers from wealthier climes understandably resentful, unsettled and in shock.
Health workers who were previously urban dwellers were particularly unsettled, confronted with poor mobile communication and transport, lack of safe water and electricity, fear and superstition from resident locals.
As an adult, he was to repeat the unsettled pattern of his childhood: variously employed as a dock worker, lorry driver, barman, pub landlord, forklift truck driver and steward on the QE2 for six years.
The only unsettled union is the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, which has about 25,000 workers.
PAGE D1 SPECIAL TODAY Working Younger workers, demanding and self-absorbed but also ambitious and eager to learn, face an unsettled job market.
Still, the law in this area remains profoundly unsettled, and the danger for firms like Uber is that such decisions move toward designating gig workers as employees, which would make their operations much more expensive.
I'm a pretty liberal guy, but I recognized that I was sort of unsettled by a lot of this and wasn't sure how I felt about immigration and about issues of undocumented workers coming from Mexico.
