Such concerns have not stopped the Clintons from publicly fretting over their daughter's graduation and departure next fall for Stanford University, the subject of Hillary Rodham Clinton's syndicated column this week.
As spates of warm weather have reawakened the region's air-conditioners and heated swimming pools, Long Island officials are starting to fret publicly about whether there will be enough electricity to power such devices this summer.
But at the very time Republicans began to fret publicly about holding control of Congress, a subtle shift began occurring in contributions to candidates, particularly in open seats.
Foreign Minister Gennady Udovenko fretted publicly that Kiev did not have enough suitable hotel rooms to accommodate the American President and his entourage.
Bush can publicly fret about brutality in Chechnya and my takeover of the Russian media, but I'll still praise his mental profundity when his compatriots call him incompetent.
Union power and working class solidarity are fading in Britain, and socialist thinkers fret publicly about the appeal of their economic philosophy.
He moved him from line to line among players with different styles and fretted publicly about how Kovalev just doesn't do what Campbell wants him to do.
American intelligence is still secretly detaining prisoners - a practice that has become embarrassing enough for the Central Intelligence Agency to fret publicly about it.
His mother, Pam Kohler, has urged her son to continue to flee and fretted publicly that she hoped he would be more careful about the planes he stole - preferably avoiding single-engine aircraft.
The producers have enough savvy to fret publicly about why there have been so few women and members of minorities among their contestants.