Students have adapted, but they say the switch stirred worries about how well prepared they would be for the statewide Regents examination and how rigorously Mr. Elia would grade.

A permanently unified Kurdish state stirs worries especially in Turkey and Iran, where there are large and restive Kurdish minorities.

Worrisome regulatory mechanisms and accounting procedures have stirred worries that there might be.

"Everything has to go right, and when one of the most dependable companies tells us that its earnings are going to be a disappointment, it stirs worries about profits."

And the defensive atmosphere that the bank controversy has stirred worries even members like Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican who wants individual check offenders named and embarrassed.

The I.R.S. goal has stirred worries even within the inspector general's own staff that investigators are being forced to search for far more misdeeds than may exist.

But China has recently seemed less receptive to Japanese overtures and has stirred new worries with its own missile testing and warlike talk about Taiwan.

That report stirred worries that the economy might have begun to expand at an unsustainably rapid pace.

Mr. Greenspan, an orthodox conservative economist who has been chairman of the Fed since August, stirs worries in both Congress and the Administration.

The rapid fall in Japanese stock prices has stirred worries of global financial problems and shaken the complacency that world markets could remain unaffected.