Mr. Rosner concedes that these may be longer-term concerns.

Still, they are down more than 18 percent for the year, reflecting longer-term concerns about the company's prospects for the full year.

Officials said that while important, those steps failed to address longer-term environmental concerns.

It is good that they addressed longer-term concerns by trying to deal with the fiscal imbalances.

The President also has longer-term concerns.

Chief among the longer-term concerns is competition from Japan.

But longer-term concerns have not been alleviated - inflationary pressures from energy, food and perhaps wages.

But there are also longer-term concerns about the way the nation is heading.

Still, American officials acknowledge considerable longer-term concern.

There is also a longer-term concern that the video game business is not growing beyond the subculture of hard-core gamers.