Now the researchers have added a series of worrisome prospects, including the ability of terrorists and smugglers to evade airport luggage scanning systems that will use RFID tags in the future.

At a rate of 5 percent, that would still be better than West Germany, but for a country that effectively had no unemployment, it is a worrisome prospect.

This is a worrisome prospect for networks that continue to count on the money machine grinding away - unless the current pricing system simply cannot be changed.

Given their history, it was a worrisome prospect; in 1991, during an uprising in which Kurds briefly controlled Kirkuk, many pesh merga engaged in energetic looting.

But in addition to the recurrent structural deficit and the bad economy, New Jersey faces several worrisome prospects this year.

Evacuation of 50,000 daily visitors over narrow coast roads and five bridges is a worrisome prospect.

He kept coming back to that thought; it was the most worrisome prospect.

Success has fed on itself and that's a worrisome prospect," Professor Siegel said, "because people's expectations are not grounded in long-term history.

One worrisome prospect is a rule that permits a Part D plan to increase the co-payment or even end coverage for a drug on 60 days' notice.

That is a worrisome prospect to most steel producers, whose losses have been mounting.