Fashion problems would seem to be a short-term concern.

Iran's oil and gas reserves are too big to ignore, he said, but "we have all the short-term political concerns, as you can see."

"It's a legitimate but short-term concern" for a company whose market share is still growing, he said.

Mr. Bush's team sees the 1990 budget as an important, but manageable, short-term concern.

Stockbrokers said Frankfurt's fall was not linked to bad company news but in response to short-term concerns due to uncertainty in the bond market.

Major short-term concerns are the rising fiscal deficit and the deterioration in the external account balance.

"The strike is not much more than a short-term concern," he said.

As far as the protests, she dismissed them as short-term concerns on the part of the company.

The impression left is that the White House's handling of the economy is driven by short-term political concerns.

A multitude of revolutionary short-term concerns had been replaced by more centralized, long-term issues.