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But today, one automaker, General Motors GM -1.02%decrease; red down pointing triangle , has less reason to fret.

Bill Clinton’s Republican Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan, would fret about the national debt disappearing faster than the financial plumbing could adjust to its absence.

He fretted whenever he thought its editors were cooling toward his fiction or poetry, though there was no way the magazine’s demand could keep pace with Updike’s constant supply.

Girmay fretted that the worlds course, with its nearly 18,000 feet of climbing, was too much—that African riders, especially ones unused to Kigali’s mile-high altitude, would have trouble finishing.

Even the very wealthy fret over everything from strained family dynamics and outliving their savings to the specter of inflation and the prospect of missing the next big investment trend.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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