In fact, the firm may even have made matters worse.
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Increasingly conservative attitudes in the region have made matters worse.
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Progressives also say efforts to compromise have made matters worse.
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Depending on the private sector would have made matters worse.
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Remarks by Britain's foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, have made matters worse.
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And in their view government involvement had only made matters worse.
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Trade tensions with the United States have only made matters worse.
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Direct interference from Beijing in local affairs has made matters worse.
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The growing immediacy of the problem of slavery made matters worse.
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The 1854 debate over the Kansas-Nebraska Act made matters worse.
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A changing climate and rapidly growing population have made matters worse.
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Balkan countries' slow progress towards joining the EU has made matters worse.
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Militancy in the oil-pumping Niger Delta has only made matters worse.
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But each of these very similarly structured rebuttals actually made matters worse.
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"The measures have made matters worse instead of being helpful," he said.
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Krauthammer said Trump had made matters worse, however, by seeking constant media attention.
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The drug war declared by America in the 1970s has made matters worse.
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But in both cases, when top officials spoke, they immediately made matters worse.
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In reacting like a cornered rat, he only made matters worse for himself.
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Cohen later made matters worse by publicly saying that Trump never reimbursed him.
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Turkey's purchase of the S400 air-defence system from Russia made matters worse.
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The severe drought that parched the state between 2011 and 2017 made matters worse.
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The promised legacies have not only failed to materialize; they have made matters worse.
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" However, he said, "the excitement of our digital world has certainly made matters worse.
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Corbyn himself made matters worse, by implicitly comparing Israel to ISIS in his speech.
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The economic crisis and recovery made matters worse, affecting struggling and successful neighborhoods very differently.
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Disgruntled officials made matters worse by claiming that the government was suppressing dire unemployment data.
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Some sellers have made matters worse with techniques ranging from opaque pricing to emotional blackmail.
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Testimony by the director of Macron&aposs office, Patrick Strzoda, might have made matters worse.
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And the President Donald Trump's general ignorance of the car business has made matters worse.
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Maduro's proposal to convene a new assembly to rewrite the constitution only made matters worse.
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A tariff so high as to be exclusionary only made matters worse in the 1930s.
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President Donald Trump has made matters worse by vowing to slap higher tariffs on Turkish metals.
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The tribunal's ruling only made matters worse: afterwards, China told even its tourists to stay away.
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Rising oil prices and the increased volatility of India's currency, the rupee, only made matters worse.
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Her marriage often made matters worse; in many ways, "Louisa" is a portrait of that marriage.
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But rather than developing and implementing a better strategy, Trump's wrongheaded efforts only made matters worse.
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Amazon's unreliable routing and navigation software only made matters worse, according to two people who attended.
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And de Blasio's presidential run made matters worse, not better, in terms of his public image.
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After attempting to extricate himself, which reportedly made matters worse, the man began to yell for help.
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Bad management and bad luck—a weak economy and demands for more capital from regulators—made matters worse.
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And a mistake by officials at the BNPB, the national disaster-relief organisation, could have made matters worse.
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The national budget crisis has made matters worse as many local officials have not been paid for months.
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Trump has only made matters worse with a decision-making process that's akin to diplomatic and political malpractice.
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" McCarthy, after "accidentally" invoking Hitler again, made matters worse with the line: "Fool me once, shame on me.
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The limited understanding of American political officers, cycled in every six months or so, has made matters worse.
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There was already a labor shortage in the construction industry, and two severe hurricanes only made matters worse.
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In fact, Johnson's mom only made matters worse, she said, viewing Moore's advances as a twisted badge of honor.
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Brexit has made matters worse by pushing the pound lower (and the company's costs up) and deterring some travelers.
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Instead of resolving the muddle, however, the Court issued two rulings in under a year that made matters worse.
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Mr. Trump's Justice Department made matters worse when it agreed with the challengers that all of Obamacare should go.
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As with his (mis)management of the economy and the health system, President Nicolas Maduro has only made matters worse.
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By favoring stability over democracy, the Obama administration made matters worse by emboldening the regime and forfeiting an electoral solution.
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The efficiency improvements that were supposed to herald an era of fat profits only seem to have made matters worse.
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But officials acknowledge that the move just made matters worse, by allowing the population on the range to grow rapidly.
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By 19, she says, she had tried pretty much every treatment available, including a spinal implant that made matters worse.
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The latest oil-price shock, coupled with Western sanctions which have cut Russia off from Western capital markets, made matters worse.
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Terror group al-Shabaab has only made matters worse by blocking humanitarian agencies from entering the country and stealing foreign aid.
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But Mr. Calthorpe and Ms. Poticha are talking about a matter of magnitude — that Houston's anything-goes development made matters worse.
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Moreover, Puerto Rico is the world's oldest colony and Congress has failed to recognize it, which only has made matters worse.
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Local lawmaker Adnen Hajji agreed that the public service could not hire everyone but that corruption at state companies made matters worse.
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What made matters worse for the industry was that the once safe option of casting an A-list star failed to draw audiences.
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And when some Wall Street salespeople started selling insurance policies that supposedly let investors skirt stock market losses, it only made matters worse.
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But what made matters worse is that removing the software wouldn't remove the certificate — leaving them still vulnerable to spoofing and impersonation attacks.
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What made matters worse was that the meeting occurred on May 11, 2017, one day after Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey.
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The Charlottesville Police Department made matters worse, ordering the protesters to disperse in short order, then tear-gassing them in the ensuing chaos.
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Already shorthanded with sophomore guard Isaiah Joe out because of recent knee surgery, Arkansas made matters worse by getting into foul trouble early.
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What made matters worse was the fact that Facebook had actually known about the issue since 2015 and instructed the firm to delete it.
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Blue Apron loses customers nearly as fast as HelloFresh; bungled orders due to glitches at its new fulfilment centre last year made matters worse.
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Signing the JCPOA did not produce a reformist turn in Tehran; on the contrary, it made matters worse by fueling Iran's aggressive foreign policy.
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However, he may have made matters worse for himself when he continued to disparage a Miss Universe pageant winner, Alicia Machado, for gaining weight.
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When it became evident how the storm had devastated black neighborhoods of New Orleans, and the government response only made matters worse, MXGM mobilized.
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They then made matters worse by overriding the automatic emergency cooling system, thinking there was too much water in the reactor rather than too little.
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Had Trump started his responses with the attacks on the Clintons' personal lives, it would have looked desperate and probably would have made matters worse.
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There were no Western banks ready to offer guarantees and letters of credit, and the sharp decline of Iran's currency under sanctions made matters worse.
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Physical restoration using those colors would have made matters worse, Khandekar explained, not least because the pigments would have bled directly onto the raw canvas.
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These feelings were further exacerbated after Pruitt did interviews with Fox News and Washington Examiner, which a senior administration official said only made matters worse.
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Schnatter made matters worse six months later by reportedly quoting KFC founder Colonel Sanders while using the n-word during an internal diversity training meeting.
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I understand Shortz' reflex to hold back such dark information given the levity of a puzzle, but not doing so may have made matters worse.
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But the more restrictive approach to immigration under Mr. Trump, and the closer scrutiny of visa applications as a result, have certainly made matters worse.
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Elsewhere, Facebook struggled to bring its Free Basics program to India, and a bad tweet from one of the company's board members only made matters worse.
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But what made matters worse is that the US House Committee on Space, Science, and Technology tweeted the story out as evidence of climate change denial.
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The emails Don Jr. released detailing how he eagerly set up a sit down with the Kremlin-linked lawyer have only made matters worse for him.
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For the most part, these new policies have not made us safer, nor have they helped to streamlines our immigration system — they have made matters worse.
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Thousands protested against the conditions, unemployment and corruption last summer, when searing heat made matters worse and hundreds were treated in hospital after drinking unclean water.
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Of late, his reckless economic policies — including setting interest rates at artificially low levels, and driving up debts, deficits and inflation — have only made matters worse.
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What made matters worse was when he saw the comments of two Times editors dismissing angry readers as people who reject free speech or alternative viewpoints.
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His reference to Xinjiang as East Turkestan, a name for the region used by advocates of self-rule for Uighurs, made matters worse for many Chinese.
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Then some European governments made matters worse by proposing that their nationals with Moroccan roots could be stripped of their citizenship and sent to Morocco instead.
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" He said someone had interfered with his slides without his permission, which "made matters worse by suggesting to people that there was something wrong with the material.
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Britain's foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, made matters worse on Tuesday by comparing the Irish border to that between two London boroughs where a congestion charging scheme operates.
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That unusual structure only made matters worse when the "wicked, wicked storm" that meteorologists called a "bomb cyclone" started dumping snow on Kennedy's runways, Mr. LaHood said.
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Hamer argued that a Johnson administration shift from commodity food distribution to a discounted food stamp purchase program, which too few could afford, had made matters worse.
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He has fascinating stories about efforts to remediate class disparities in higher education, some of which have succeeded and some of which may have made matters worse.
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But unfortunately, the "draft mini-report" on fare-free only made matters worse, making bold predictions by omitting any measure of the costs of such a policy.
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"It just made matters worse, because he owned it, and now he's trying to walk it back," said Charniele L. Herring, a Democratic state legislator from Alexandria.
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I would take all kinds of instruments to my face and skin to try to clear it up but as you can imagine, it just made matters worse.
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ObamaCare sought to increase competition in order to reduce prices and improve access to healthcare, but for many Americans in rural counties, the law has made matters worse.
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Another scandal, in March, has made matters worse; seven members of an elite Baltimore police unit were charged with robbing drug dealers and law-abiding Baltimoreans, among other crimes.
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In the wake of the backlash against them for the blackface party, they've made matters worse by running an issue with a lawn jockey in blackface on the cover.
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Our sources say the joke about Crenshaw looking like a porn movie hitman was written into the script, but Pete made matters worse by improvising those last couple lines.
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Deliveries of the Rev were delayed by at least two months, according to those emails, which made matters worse as it tied up a significant amount of Boosted's cash.
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But there is broad agreement that it made matters worse by not being more forthcoming with Chief Executive John Stumpf under pressure to explain why this happened on his watch.
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I have seen many criminal cases in which potential defendants who thought they could talk prosecutors out of an indictment tried to do so and made matters worse for themselves.
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"Harvard's failure to properly instruct admissions staff — in writing or even orally — as to when and how race should be used in evaluating applicants made matters worse," the plaintiffs write.
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And there seems little chance of that: The foreign secretary has long been unpopular with many of his colleagues in Parliament, and his recent behavior has only made matters worse.
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The US made matters worse with its two recent announcements: the training of the Kurdish border force and the decision to keep US troops in Syria with no withdrawal date.
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While growth has been dragged lower in each country by a specific cocktail of factors, a global manufacturing slump and a sharp drop in business confidence have made matters worse.
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Chief Executive Jeff Harmening said North American freight prices were near 20-year highs in February and that rising commodities costs, including grains, fruits and nuts, had made matters worse.
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Many of his and the IMF's recommendations for drastic spending cuts during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s have since been widely discredited as having made matters worse.
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After Trump unabashedly said he would like Ukraine and China to investigate the man he sees as the biggest threat to his 2020 reelection, it was Giuliani who made matters worse.
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Intrusive outsiders have often made matters worse, from the rapacious Belgian King Leopold II in the 19th century to the American cold warriors who propped up Mobutu for being anti-Soviet.
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Trump Jr. made matters worse for himself when he tweeted screen shots of the email chain, exposing his glee ("I love it") over the prospect of learning damaging information about Clinton.
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The flippant response of Rio mayor Eduardo Paes, who said that he'd even tried to bring a kangaroo to the Village to make the Australians feel at home, made matters worse.
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The Eritrean government only made matters worse by shelving its Constitution, arresting dissidents and supporting armed rebels throughout the Horn of Africa — policies that alienated its neighbors and Western powers alike.
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But then Lowell made matters worse on Thursday by inadvertently revealing that Kushner had not been up-front with the Senate Intelligence Committee about his use of a private email address.
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The Pentagon made matters worse (if such a thing were possible) by intentionally placing black soldiers under the command of white Southern officers — on the premise that Southerners better "understood" black people.
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An accidental incident with her dog left her nose broken and severed from her upper lip, and a botched plastic surgery only made matters worse — and left her with one large nostril.
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Recent headlines about China banning many of Apple's iPhones and Canada holding the chief financial officer of telecom networking company Huawei for extradition to the United States have only made matters worse.
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The bigger problem, researchers have found, is that crime in African-Americans and Hispanic communities is driven by socioeconomic factors, and the response from police and prosecutors has only made matters worse.
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Addressing lawmakers in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Mr. Hammond made matters worse when he appeared to suggest that the breach of a manifesto commitment had first been identified by a journalist.
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BOJ officials have become increasingly wary of the costs of a flattening yield curve, such as hurting bank profits, especially as its controversial decision to adopt negative rates in January has made matters worse.
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Printing money only made matters worse, unleashing hyperinflation that would go on to top 500 billion percent in 2008 before a unity government forged between Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai scrapped the currency.
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The social gender power balances in Yemen have always favored men over women, but the conflict has made matters worse as men take their position as decision makers at all levels across all fields.
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"With the arrival of lots of tourists, people gradually forgot about the traditional ways of keeping the surroundings clean," Chondol said, adding that the convenience and popularity of plastic bags had made matters worse.
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What made matters worse was the very late decision for British forces to enter Iraq with the Americans from the south, after Turkey said it would not allow the coalition to enter from its territory.
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The things we have tried — academic studies of the field, proclamations of how important young children are, requiring teachers to have degrees they can't afford and drowning teachers in paperwork — have only made matters worse.
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The central bank tried to print its way out of trouble by unleashing a flood of cash but that only made matters worse, leading to hyperinflation that topped out at 500 billion percent in 2008.
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What made matters worse was that pilots didn't know what was happening, because Boeing hadn't properly disclosed the software to airlines — partly to save money, but also to bring the 737 Max to market more quickly.
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The human resources manager from Las Vegas had dealt with polycystic ovarian syndrome for years, which made it difficult to lose weight — and postpartum depression following the birth of her son in 2011 made matters worse.
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" Richard Carranza, New York City's new school chancellor, made matters worse when he bluntly told a local news organization, "I just don't buy into the narrative that any one ethnic group owns admission to these schools.
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A subsequent attempt to clarify the "confusion" only made matters worse, as Benny and Rafi tried to justify why it would be beneficial for everyone if they were forced to pay to use a generic video format.
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Many aides now view the EPA administrator as an unnecessary problem who has only made matters worse for himself by ignoring White House offers to help him remedy the situation, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Further, recent research suggests that this one-time, temporary tax holiday actually may have made matters worse, afterwards incentivizing firms to hoard even more foreign cash in hopes of steering Congress toward a second future repatriation tax holiday.
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On the recruiting trail, yet another five-star passer has taken a pass on the Aggies, and the reaction one A&M assistant had to the news last week only made matters worse for Coach Kevin Sumlin's program.
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HONG KONG — As China's economic woes intensified, the nation's top securities regulator appeared to have the support of the Communist Party leadership, even when his efforts to stabilize the stock markets faltered and in some cases made matters worse.
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The industry has made matters worse by testing rough-around-the-edges products on unsuspecting people: pedestrians in the case of autonomous vehicles, patients in the case of health care AI, and students in the case of educational software.
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But a Muslim Brotherhood government elected in 133 curbed secular speech, and the coup that toppled it in 213 made matters worse, says Muhammad Abdel-Salam of the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression, an Egyptian pressure group.
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The lame explanation from Mr. Trump's courtiers, that he needed to look tough for his meeting with Kim Jong-un, made matters worse by implying that he felt he needed to publicly kick friends aside to impress a murderous dictator.
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It only made matters worse that the test came just as Hun Sen's government was working to shut down independent media, from the Cambodia Daily newspaper to a host of news radio stations, making Facebook's role as a source even more important.
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President Obama was in a perfect position to do a full on national security reset—but instead his administration pressed forward with "old" policy in the Middle East and made matters worse in the region through our actions in Libya, Egypt, Syria, and Yemen.
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When Eagleton was forced to admit he'd undergone electric-shock therapy twice in the 1960s, McGovern made matters worse—and wrecked his reputation as the one honest politician in Washington—by first backing him "one thousand percent," then coldly dumping him from the ticket.
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In trying to get ahead of criticism of the FBI for jumping to a conclusion too quickly and closing the original Hillary Clinton email investigation, he has only made matters worse and dropped a huge new issue into the presidential campaign, 11 days before the election.
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He made matters worse when he suggested that if the president ordered Jim Comey "shot in the Oval Office," he couldn&apost be prosecuted because the president can pardon himself and because the president&aposs personal and presidential behavior is beyond the reach of the criminal justice system.
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As Reece Rushing, who served as director of Oversight and Investigations for Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee, told me, lawmakers are often completely dependent on staff to write their questions — and the ones who tried to come up with their own questions typically made matters worse.
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He made matters worse for Republicans when he told The Washington Post this past weekend that any replacement plan should offer insurance to all Americans, and that Republicans should embrace the long-held Democratic proposal to empower the federal government to negotiate drug prices for Medicare and Medicaid.
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The Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Airbnb investor Ron Conway made matters worse when, after donating to Bill de Blasio's mayoral campaign, he flew to New York and told Mr. deBlasio and business leaders to follow San Francisco's example or fall behind in innovation and growth, according to people who attended one of the meetings.
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" The fact that it was the defense rather than the prosecution that presented the racial testimony most likely made matters worse, he said, because while jurors understand that the prosecution is seeking a conviction and evaluate the government's evidence accordingly, "when a defendant's own lawyer puts in the offending evidence, it is in the nature of an admission against interest, more likely to be taken at face value.
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The president had sought to diffuse the Ukraine controversy by authorizing the release of the transcript, but it in some ways made matters worse as Democrats seized on an exchange in which Trump pushed Zelensky to "look into" Biden and work with Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiMurphy: Background check talks continue despite Trump Ukraine criticism Hacker changes Seattle road sign to say 'Impeach the bastard' Pence: Trump has been 'completely vindicated' with Ukraine call readout MORE and Attorney General Bill Barr.
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