For most Americans, debt remains more of a chronic than an acute concern.

One group having trouble winning access to treatment is the poor, among whom obesity is an especially acute concern.

All this is becoming a matter of more acute concern to the United States.

Still, offensive strength was not an acute concern for the Mets.

They indicated the acute concerns and feeling of vulnerability preying on each of the smaller independent television companies.

But the toughest challenge may be a human one: acute public concern about security breaches and identity theft.

This is an acute concern in the tri-state region, where telecommunications-intensive industries like financial and business services are pillars of the economy.

These two acute concerns for the technical and the social in the movie making have not made it easy for him in his career.

With a Presidential election coming up, the struggling economy is an acute political concern for the White House.

Now his expression was one of acute concern and distress.