11.   The stock market could become even more volatile, consumer confidence might wane and terrorists might become emboldened.

12.   Yet, we now are at a new crossroads in which public confidence has waned not only in the president, but even more so in the Congress.

13.   Still, confidence is waning in a Japanese turnaround.

14.   While confidence was already waning before the attacks, it was likely that Americans grew even more uneasy afterward.