Shares fell 4.49%, however, as investors fretted about competition from Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and others.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has even fretted about the MacBook Air's lack of an optical drive.
Bear, an outsider to the field, fretted about how his theory would be received.
He fretted about labor shortages, saying that these mean higher wages, which, in turn, mean inflation.
Sonya Amos, a London lawyer, said her friend Tessa van Velsen fretted on Thursday.
Growth-sensitive stocks continued to underperform as investors fretted about the darkening global growth outlook.
When prices were climbing rapidly, central banks fretted that consumers' inflation expectations would rise in response.
It was the dollar that was losing support, as swing voters fretted about America's current-account deficit.
Several moderate Republicans there fretted publicly when Mr Bush's tax plans were first floated last month.
Saban and his wife, Terry, fretted over the decision for a few days as Moore anxiously waited.
Skeptics fretted that it might take much longer than two years for real effects to show up.
Another manager fretted about the opposition she was likely to encounter in trying to revamp dialysis treatments.
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In the late 1700's, Benjamin Franklin fretted over Pennsylvania becoming "a colony of aliens" thanks to German immigrants.
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Increasingly, he feared for his job and fretted about falling into legal jeopardy.
Cowen, fretted that Genentech stock had hit a high water mark in 2006, despite what he called flawless execution.
She bought organic food, encouraged her children to play instruments, and fretted over whether they were adequately challenged in school.
While 80, 000 people collectively fidgeted, fretted and fussed in anticipation of the main event, Bolt remained immune to the pressure.
Although such sinful baths were the exception, bureaucrats of the time fretted that sento posed a threat to public morality.
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The Atlantic fretted they might become a lost generation, unable to ever truly find their feet on the corporate ladder.
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Firms also fretted about dangers for employees who may have had to come into work to prepare for Monday's unconventional open.
For years, Tory modernisers such as Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne fretted about their party's failure to appeal to public-sector workers.
Or, as housing experts I spoke to fretted, cities may not have the infrastructure to set up or monitor affordability restrictions.
Policymakers, economists and journalists fretted about the prospect of a dollar crash.
Bioethicists fretted about the risk such treatments posed for mothers and children.
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In the bad old days of apartheid, South Africans fretted that they could not sell their wine or beer to anybody else.
The analyst, Bradley Smith, fretted that "a number" of finite deals had been unwound--even though Fairfax had reported the moves six months earlier.
But shares plummeted 22% as investors fretted over a delay in clinical trials testing Genasense, the oncology drug the two companies are developing.
Less alarmist economists fretted that Asia's economic troubles would exacerbate the squeeze already being caused by strong exchange rates in America and Britain.
He fretted about the chance of another disaster on earth, noting that something a kilometre across could kill a quarter of the human race.
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