With police gone, crime is a growing concern.

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Credit risk has been of fairly minor concern because few borrowers have gone bust.

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Any concept of stewardship on the part of the directors gone: the only issue of concern now is dealing for investment gain.

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"The concern is where she could have gone to when she ran away, " she said.

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And as noted above, these laws and regulations have gone a long, long way in alleviating any real concern in the actual public at large.

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Some may contend that this is not a serious cause for concern because cuts on the U.S. side will similarly not have gone into effect.

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It strikes me as a bit strange in that until recently the concern about Pakistan from the Pentagon was the exact opposite, in that too much focus has gone to South Waziristan, too much focus has been on TTP, and none of it is the enemies that you have focused -- which is on the Haqqani network and the Quetta Shura Taliban.

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