Making matters worse, PREPA has been in bankruptcy since July.
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Making matters worse, the transfer shifted the registration from Web.
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"Trump is exporting his bigotry & making matters worse," she said.
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Making matters worse, 911 still does not work, officials said.
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Making matters worse, inadequate supply chain leaves a bleak outlook.
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Boeing (BA) stock dropped, making matters worse for the Dow.
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Making matters worse for Heller, he's had a rough 22012.
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Making matters worse, these are all problems you created yourself.
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Making matters worse, the hair had been cut with scissors.
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Making matters worse, Google seems to have a dongle pricing problem.
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Making matters worse, it turned out the butterfly was already dead.
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Making matters worse, some 3,000 of them are approaching retirement age.
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Making matters worse, Mercury has been retrograde for the past month!
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Making matters worse, they put no money aside for leaner years.
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Making matters worse, Rondo saved his best for his former team.
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Making matters worse, Trump's budget would worsen economic disparities by race.
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The trade war between America and China is making matters worse.
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Making matters worse is the astonishing "safety" record of the chemical industry.
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Prolonged drought is making matters worse, development workers in the area say.
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Making matters worse, package delivery into Venezuela is very expensive and unreliable.
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Making matters worse, the press conference was not some kind of anomaly.
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Making matters worse, the 49ers returned two of Winston's interceptions for touchdowns.
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Making matters worse was the dysfunction that prevailed at the top level.
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Making matters worse, radiocarbon dating becomes increasingly unreliable beyond about 40,000 years.
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Making matters worse, Israelis and their government have become addicted to cars.
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Making matters worse, cholera is spreading, attacking people already weakened by malnutrition.
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Making matters worse is the potential for tides to exacerbate floodwater levels.
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Making matters worse, the social network had known about the abuse since 2015.
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Making matters worse, China has often placed railway stations far from city centres.
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Making matters worse, for whatever reason, these brands operate entirely via email listservs.
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Making matters worse, climate change is exacerbating the plight of the Hawaiian snails.
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Making matters worse ... a strong earthquake struck SoCal that morning, causing more panic.
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Making matters worse, GE executives acknowledged a number of missteps in recent years.
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Making matters worse for Clinton, 22019 percent of voters think she is corrupt.
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Making matters worse, Egypt's relationship with its chief benefactor, Saudi Arabia, has worsened.
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Making matters worse, other ill-advised rules rewarded Mr. Trump with disproportionate airtime.
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Mr. Spicer said Mr. Flynn stuck to his original account, making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, the company's operation for monitoring content in Burmese was meagre.
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Making matters worse, retailers are cutting prices in a fight for market share.
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Making matters worse, Antofagasta has a horrible environmental record in its home country.
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Making matters worse, during the 2016 presidential campaign Trump notably mocked rival Sen.
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Making matters worse, only a few people know what the Turners went through.
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Making matters worse, waste collection has ground to a halt in most major cities.
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Making matters worse for these companies, suggests Barry, is the Golden State Killer case.
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There's enough racial bias in the criminal justice system without technology making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, armed miners have been feasting on bushmeat, including the Grauer's gorillas.
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Hal decides to be vindictive by firing Alice from the paper, making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, the toxins were a "crude" mixture of bacteria, O'Donnell-Tormey said.
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Making matters worse, the for-hire vehicles often drove around with empty back seats.
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Making matters worse, Guatemala has some of the lowest taxes collected in the world.
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Making matters worse, only half of returned goods make it back to shelves immediately.
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Making matters worse, Frappuccino sales also were hurt by a lack of innovation, analysts said.
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Making matters worse, when the sanctions officially snapped back into place on Iran on Nov.
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Making matters worse, the duo's 2-year-old son, Jaxx, was in the audience watching.
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Making matters worse, 53% said their illness had kept them from working, at least temporarily.
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Making matters worse, Trump has unleashed an irresponsible, dangerous torrent of threats about the whistleblower.
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Making matters worse, there's no way for devices to verify the authenticity of received alerts.
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And there are two areas in which the Tory leadership election is making matters worse.
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Making matters worse for Jackson, Republicans were unwilling to offer a public defense of Jackson.
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Making matters worse, the two-parent household is in a state of abject free fall.
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Making matters worse for lawmakers, videos of their exchanges with desperate constituents regularly went viral.
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Making matters worse, the family of Force's murderer is being paid, indirectly, by American taxpayers.
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Making matters worse, cyber-enabled disinformation campaigns are sowing distrust in science, institutions and nations.
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Making matters worse for Open Arms, the ship has sailed straight into a political hurricane.
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Making matters worse, Gabbard's team was stunned when the congresswoman announced her plans on CNN.
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Making matters worse, Davis slipped in the third quarter, and his right knee bent awkwardly.
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Making matters worse for Open Arms, the ship has sailed straight into a political hurricane.
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The Broncos offense is struggling, especially with the quarterback play and offensive line making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, it's not like Trump pushed to get this meeting all on his own.
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Making matters worse, George R. R. Martin is in no rush to release his next book.
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Making matters worse, Spider-Man's affiliation with Iron Man in the plot falls apart under scrutiny.
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Conway said Tuesday the media is making matters worse for Trump by covering the billionaire unfairly.
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Making matters worse, there was no requirement that the FEMA Administrator have experience in emergency management.
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Making matters worse was that often, non-disabled actors would tackle these roles with embarrassing gusto.
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Making matters worse, the alternative to accessing public capital markets is often selling to larger companies.
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And making matters worse, all this pressure has driven him toward an addiction to prescription painkillers.
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Making matters worse for the production is that Arnold and Vallée each have distinct visual styles.
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Making matters worse, stress from the drought has made these plants more vulnerable to the plague.
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Making matters worse, mutations can alter a strain's hemagglutinin knob from one year to the next.
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Making matters worse, Mr. McConnell is a lawyer (as are nearly 50 of his Senate colleagues).
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Making matters worse, he then allowed the Trump administration to control — and spin — the report's release.
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Making matters worse, the famous Tule fogs that cool the valley have dissipated by 220 percent.
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At the first tribal council, Kim was ultimately voted out of the game, making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, he'd only packed a single pair of underwear for the entire, 54-day expedition.
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Yet European countries that helped set it down this path are ignoring it—or making matters worse.
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A federal jury ruled in March that Praluent infringes two Amgen patents, making matters worse for Regeneron.
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Making matters worse, in November two of the city's respected hyperlocal news outlets, DNAInfo and Gothamist, shuttered.
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Making matters worse, Ouelet constantly reassure Mira, who's lonely, that she's just more "evolved" than everyone else.
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Morrison, then, may have tried to protect the president, but he only ended up making matters worse.
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An economic downturn is making matters worse: Italy fell into recession in the second half of 2018.
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Making matters worse, signs and symptoms might not appear until weeks, months or even years after exposure.
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Making matters worse, the collateral against the bond is Citgo, PDVSA's Houston-based refining and retail subsidiary.
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Making matters worse, the voice work (notably from Aaron Paul, Sean Bean and Lena Headey) is atrocious.
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Making matters worse, states often redirect the 220006-2202-2628 fees they do collect to other purposes.
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Making matters worse is our system's health care infrastructure, built on top of this fractured payer system.
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Making matters worse, she remains under the 15 percent threshold for a share of California's 415 delegates.
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Making matters worse for the Aggies, fellow point guard Abel Porter fouled out with 343:234 left.
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Making matters worse, WWE also announced that its operating profit for 2019 would be lower than expected.
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Making matters worse: Only about 2000% of residents are curbing their water use to daily limits. 220.
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Making matters worse, Montana was still experiencing summer-like conditions right before the snow hit, Greely said.
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Yzola: Making matters worse, people who&aposve gone to prison for weed are barred from selling it.
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Making matters worse, the ways Americans use cannabis are changing in ways that further increase its risks.
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Making matters worse, Uber's operations in Mexico are registered through the subsidiary "Uber BV," headquartered in the Netherlands.
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Making matters worse, one of the dogs chewed up her one pair of flip flops in the hotel.
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Making matters worse, the injuries were months old and had already started to heal incorrectly, resulting in arthritis.
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And making matters worse, Dr. Castello looked at Meredith like he'd never seen her before in his life.
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Making matters worse for the Canucks, they played the night before while the Rangers had the evening off.
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And making matters worse, one of the designers had just taken a vacation after those changes went live.
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But big brother heavy handedness in these programs needs to end as it is only making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, some people who have sought tests in the past few weeks have been turned away.
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Making matters worse, from a progressive economic perspective, the current system favors large employers and higher-income employees.
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Making matters worse, rolling back fair housing enforcement will not address the real causes of the housing crisis.
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Making matters worse, October construction spending also sharply underperformed forecasts, falling 0.8% when a 0.4% bump was expected.
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And making matters worse for photographers, employees typically don't own the copyright to their images, whereas contractors do.
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Making matters worse is that a water main broke right after the earthquake, flooding the bottom layers of wreckage.
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But, as you probably know but don't want to think about, that only clogs pores further, making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, all this touching is happening in an environment filled with a never-ending stream of travelers.
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Making matters worse, emerging economies borrow mostly in dollars, while their biggest customers mostly pay in euros, Hauner said.
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Conservatives have struggled to receive support from youth for countless elections and Donald Trump is only making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, it was revealed that members of his unit had also been drinking alcohol on the battlefield.
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Making matters worse was having to tell Matthew that he would have to wait to become a big brother.
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Making matters worse, the heat obliterates the pheromone chemical trails that ants typically lay for each other to navigate.
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Making matters worse, this mosquito is an especially active blood-sucker during the day, when we're out and about.
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Making matters worse is the lack of bankruptcy courts outside the states of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
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Making matters worse, the list of prospects to replace departing aides grows shorter as the sense of turmoil increases.
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Making matters worse is that Alaska's economic cycle is profoundly out of step with the rest of the nation.
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Making matters worse, any nuclear strike on those countries would put American troops stationed there directly in harm's way.
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Making matters worse, a cholera epidemic has swept through the country at lightning speed, infecting over a million people.
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Making matters worse, oil production is crashing, thanks to catastrophic choices made by Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez.
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Making matters worse, a math error was introduced: Sixty four of 68 hospitals is 94 percent — not 92 percent.
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Making matters worse ... Tekashi turned up a couple hundred miles away at Powerhouse in NJ on the same night.
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Making matters worse for Democrats, this may be their last chance to retake the Senate for the foreseeable future.
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Making matters worse, workforce mobility is at historic lows, meaning far fewer people are moving to new counties or states.
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Making matters worse for Rubio, he hurt his standing with Latinos after he stopped supporting his own immigration-reform bill.
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Making matters worse, the number of protectees in the Trump administration is also greater than it was in Obama's administration.
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Making matters worse, the President has failed to develop a coherent detention policy for capturing, interrogating, and prosecuting new suspects.
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Making matters worse for Clinton, two thirds of Sanders' supporters feel the DNC rigged the Democratic primary in her favor.
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And making matters worse, at the time, Facebook allowed apps like these to collect data on users' friends as well.
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Making matters worse: A Chinese Navy warship seized an American underwater drone in the disputed South China Sea on Thursday.
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Making matters worse, despite my best efforts, the steam room didn't appear to be working and smelled like a foot.
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Making matters worse, CISC had too much capacity when the 2008 global financial crisis sent steel demand into a tailspin.
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Making matters worse, Jose Calderon absorbed the brunt of a collision before leaving the game with a sore right calf.
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But Mugabe's successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is only making matters worse, according to Dzikamai Bere of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum.
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Trade tensions with the United States and the removal of Chinese subsidies in the auto sector are making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, regulators and public bodies are sitting on a number of other potentially critical inquiries into British democracy.
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Making matters worse, WannaCry had wormable properties, allowing it to spread across a network and making it difficult to contain.
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Making matters worse, left tackle Duane Brown, the team's best pass-blocker and run-blocker, is out after meniscus surgery.
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The quiet summer months are making matters worse, because liquidity in the stock market tends to decrease in lockstep with holidays.
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And making matters worse, people who live out in the country tend to be older and sicker than their urban counterparts.
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Investors are now worried that weaker-than-expected private payrolls data and Friday's jobs report could also disappoint, making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, MEPs can utilize a vague "loss of trust" clause in most employees' contracts to dismiss them without notice.
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Making matters worse was Reid refusing to use his timeouts with his team in the red zone with 26:240 remaining.
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Making matters worse for H&R Block, Intuit has introduced new products that target people who still want some tax assistance.
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Making matters worse is the looming deadline by which small businesses must make the big changes necessary to be in compliance.
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Making matters worse, he demonstrated a real knack for putting his foot in his mouth during the Iron Fist press tour.
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Making matters worse, eastern European countries are also up in arms about a scheme agreed last September to relocate 160,000 migrants.
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Making matters worse, an increasing number of people are forgoing cable packages in favor of streaming services like Hulu and Netflix.
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Making matters worse, Medici's most well-known investment, tZero, a trading system startup, still has yet to launch to the public.
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Making matters worse ... Alaina's Apple Watch and iPhone still showed her location at the bar, this according to the L.A. Times.
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Making matters worse, Silva said demand in the aviation industry is passing through a softer cycle, making 2017 a challenging year.
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Making matters worse for the Big 12, this looks like a year when an outsider, like Houston, could make the Playoff.
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I checked in with myself and realized that I'd been beating myself up again, and it was only making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, that talent is in all the wrong places: Ohio State's defensive line is the best in the country.
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Making matters worse, Our Revolution — Sanders's down-ballot organization — never really intervened to help Canova, according to the Atlantic's Clare Foran.
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Making matters worse, while violence was once mostly concentrated in a few places, the recent rise in homicides has been dispersed.
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Making matters worse, Congress is slated to pass the Foreign Investment Review Risk Modernization Act, which will toughen inward investment rules.
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Making matters worse, many Democrats faltered, embracing the misguided austerity policies championed by their political opponents, for fear of looking weak.
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Making matters worse for Selina is that while she's at her lowest, many people from her circle are on the rise.
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Potential expansion relief: Making matters worse, the Rangers can't expose their bad contracts (Dan Girardi, Marc Staal) to alleviate the pressure.
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Making matters worse, the novel coronavirus continues to weigh heavily on investors as it deals an unexpected shock to the economy.
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Making matters worse, some people who have sought tests in the past few weeks, like Eaker's patient, have been turned away.
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Making matters worse, the Environmental Protection Agency cut off funds to the utility because it was unable to repay earlier loans.
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Making matters worse, I reside in a state that has been, and continues to be, devastated by the fossil fuel industry.
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Making matters worse, only weeks before, wildfires had swept through the region, engulfing the Bay Area with smoke for two weeks.
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Making matters worse, most traps suck the insects through a fan and then whirl them around a mesh basket for hours.
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Making matters worse, the United States now has a president who has promised to impede progress on both of those fronts.
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Making matters worse, those candidates are unlikely to receive help from their Senate Democratic colleagues, according to The Hill's Jordain Carney.
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Making matters worse was that MoviePass' business strategies for bringing in additional revenues were widely despised by the traditional theater industry.
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Making matters worse was the fact that the Fed was not alone in massively expanding the size of its balance sheet.
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Making matters worse, the insurer reached out a second time to say they'd made a mistake and had overpaid the doctor.
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Making matters worse, the Xbox One X won't have a big game to accompany its launch after the delay of Crackdown 28.
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Making matters worse, the very people storming the SCIF are the among the most at risk of compromise from a sophisticated adversary.
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Making matters worse, Tam's preference for speaking Mandarin Chinese over English is also one of the few things we know about her.
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Making matters worse, the UN's Refugee Convention currently does not recognize those fleeing climate change as entitled to protection by international law.
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Making matters worse, it turned out in practice that, despite the mandate, young and healthy people still didn't sign up for insurance.
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It's a situation that the Trump administration does not merely seem to lack a strategy for - it is frequently making matters worse.
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Getting wind of the situation, Moose's mom and a friend named Malik Williams visited the scene, only making matters worse for themselves.
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Even as MiMedx vehemently denies the allegations, the Justice Department opened an investigation into its distribution practices in February, making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, most municipalities, even those with budget surpluses, like Quebradillas, depend largely on funds from the central and federal governments.
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Making matters worse, the White House reportedly vetoed, on dubious grounds, sending out a State Department statement that did mention Jews specifically.
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The candidate had not been on enough, if any, important deals, and, making matters worse, had received little feedback over the years.
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Making matters worse, athletic leisure wear is showing signs of aging amid possible shopper fatigue with the now decade-old fashion category.
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Making matters worse, they said, Mr. Gimenez, who feared losing federal grant money, was the first big-city mayor to do so.
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Making matters worse, it took two years to complete a DNA test on her underwear, according to documents filed in the case.
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Making matters worse, both sides of the argument have tended to mischaracterize the underlying legal issues in order to score political points.
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Making matters worse, LSU deferred starting the game, meaning that they would be receiving the opening kickoff to start the second half.
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Making matters worse ... the SS&W guys say they also didn't get paid when UMG licensed "Suit & Tie" for a Bud Light commercial.
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Making matters worse is the presence of the powerful psychic Thale (Sam Strike), whom Karl believes is key to communicating with the volcryn.
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Making matters worse, real estate developments often involve a building owner who contracts with someone like Trump to brand and manage the property.
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WHO said local populations mistrust health-care workers, and it's facing a $54 million funding gap for its Ebola response, making matters worse.
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Iran is clearly taking advantage of a local conflict in Yemen to expand its influence; but Saudi actions are only making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, at the end of the month, someone published the source code of the malware used to power the DDoS attack.
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Making matters worse, Zynga delayed the launch of two new anticipated games, "CSR2" and "Dawn of TItans," from Q4 2015 to Q43 2016.
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Making matters worse, Brazil has yet to ratify the Arms Trade Treaty, or A.T.T., an accord it signed in 2013 to much acclaim.
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Making matters worse, the joyriders ordered a slickly produced professional video of their parade, complete with techno rap music booming on the soundtrack.
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Making matters worse for Trump are reports that Michael Cohen is willing to testify that the president knew about the meeting in advance.
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Making matters worse, more than 80 percent of people who adopt a vegetarian (let alone vegan) diet ultimately go back to eating meat.
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Making matters worse is the fact that the Indian character is voiced by a non-Indian (albeit an Emmy-winning) actor, Hank Azaria.
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Generous gestures, when she attempts them, seem to swipe through the lives of others like a random bear paw, often making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, the player who primarily covered Cooper, Stephon Gilmore of the Patriots, caught one of Dak Prescott's passes for an interception.
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Making matters worse, many whose main income is generated on the road have lost gigs in the service industry and at music venues.
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Making matters worse, he continued, the US isn't particularly good at collecting intelligence there, meaning some militants could operate relatively under the radar.
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Singh, popularly known as the "waterman" of India, spoke to Reuters about how lack of awareness, government apathy and corruption are making matters worse.
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They went back and forth analyzing the code, unsure if they should keep the domain up or not, fearing they were making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, the domestic corn market is going through a period of "speculative retention," that artificially inflates feed prices, according to Aurora's statement.
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Although there is no consensus amongst academics—"scientific papers go either way" says Ms Reid—some believe that global warming is making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, O'Rourke did not register once in a poll of New Hampshire registered voters released Monday by St. Anselm College (The Hill).
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Democrats' opposition can be counted on — but if early signs are any indication, much of that opposition will just end up making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, President Trump has chosen to get involved, seemingly playing his own games to gain leverage in bitter trade talks with China.
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Making matters worse, Mr. Trump, in a separate decision on Friday, continued to put the 2015 deal that froze Iran's nuclear program in jeopardy.
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Making matters worse, that includes the places where 28L intersects with two other runways, so at any given point, two runways will be closed.
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Making matters worse, President Trump formally notified the United Nations that the U.S. would be pulling out of the Paris climate agreement in November.
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Making matters worse, women have to work longer to pay for it, as they earn just 79 cents for every dollar that men make.
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Making matters worse, asylum seekers are often forced to flee their homes without all of their family members — leaving children or a spouse behind.
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Making matters worse, there's also an ongoing shortage of saline IV bags to treat the throngs of people who are going to the hospital.
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Making matters worse, the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) increased intervention in the forwards and swaps markets which sowed more confusion about its currency policy.
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Making matters worse, in the case of Attar and Nararwala, a District Court judge struck down the federal ban on FGM/C in late 2018.
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Making matters worse is the perception by many mainland Egyptians that the Bedouin collaborated with Israel when it occupied the Sinai from 1967 to 1982.
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Making matters worse, gas requires cash, but ATMs were knocked out in the power outage too, leading to lines outside banks wrapped around the blocks.
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Then, accidentally making matters worse, Twitter decided to feature the story on its Moments page, bringing a whole new slew of users into the fray.
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Making matters worse, northern Mali was already a corridor for other trafficking networks, including drugs and migrants, and ivory dealers took advantage of the situation.
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Those who kill the monkeys are making matters worse by depleting primate populations that serve as beacons for where yellow fever is spreading, epidemiologists said.
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Making matters worse, Medicare beneficiaries don't even get the benefit of drug manufacturer's rebates since rebates aren't factored into Medicare beneficiaries deductibles or coinsurance payments.
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Making matters worse is climate change, which tends to disproportionately affect the poor and promotes tropical diseases due to warmer temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns.
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Making matters worse is that Trump chose a hyperconfrontational governing style that robbed him of any leverage he might have had over the Republican Party.
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Making matters worse, Kraft Heinz (KHC) is enduring an accounting nightmare that has caused it to restate earnings for 2016 and 2017 because of employee misconduct.
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Making matters worse, when buyers unhappy with the cheaper alternatives leave a bad review, it drags down Bergman's standing because the reviews are all thrown together.
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Making matters worse was a decision by Russian President Vladimir Putin to advise Russians not to travel to Turkey following the downing of a Russian bomber.
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Making matters worse has been the partial default on debts of the government and PDVSA, the state oil company that provides 95% of the country's exports.
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Making matters worse, West thought one of Khalifa's tweets was aimed at his wife Kim Kardashian West – a misunderstanding Khalifa later pointed out and West acknowledged.
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Making matters worse, the new Supra would be a cousin to a mechanically similar BMW Z4, with both cars built by contract manufacturer Magna in Austria.
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Making matters worse, the savings from cutting federal workers' retirement would go toward a massive set of tax cuts to further enrich corporations and wealthy individuals.
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Making matters worse, people often don't know when they are exposed to vapors because the output from e-cigarettes doesn't have the distinctive tobacco smoke smell.
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Making matters worse for the generics companies, they are missing out on peak profit potential because not as many brand-name products are losing patent protection.
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Making matters worse, Altria also abandoned a plan last year to reunite with Philip Morris (PM), the international tobacco giant that Altria spun off in 2008.
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Making matters worse, Trump would surely go out and tout the deal as evidence of his bargaining super-skills and call it a campaign promise delivered.
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Making matters worse — and fueling speculation that the unemployment situation in India is even more dire than suspected — the government has withheld official data about jobs.
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Making matters worse, according to the complaint, H and three of his friends began harassing Darbi constantly, incensed that she had gone to police and school administrators.
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Making matters worse, the purpose of the briefing was so Mulvaney could announce that Trump would host the 2020 Group of Seven summit at his Doral, Fla.
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Making matters worse is the fact that it stalled out over the state for a couple of days due to lack of winds in the upper atmosphere.
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But making matters worse for the Australian flagship carrier are challenges on the hotly contested "kangaroo route" between Australia and London on which some 30 airlines operate.
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Making matters worse, Bernhardt made it optional for extractive corporations to compensate for the damage they've done to habitat in the pursuit of their own bottom line.
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Making matters worse, while many early-career male academics are supported by stay-at-home wives, women more typically wed husbands with their own professional career pressures.
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Making matters worse, the Knicks were out of timeouts — and Kurt Rambis, the interim coach, said he had trouble shouting instructions over the din of the crowd.
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Making matters worse, villagers in Balabac, and elsewhere, have been poaching mangrove bark, which can be sold illegally to offshore buyers and used to make leather dye.
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Making matters worse, it was fizzy, and poor Bangladeshi children who had never tasted soft drinks would spit it out as soon as it tickled their noses.
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Making matters worse, Teva was saddled with $35 billion debt from its $40.5 billion purchase in 2016 of Allergan's generic drug business Actavis, forcing it to sell assets.
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Making matters worse "Cyclone Idai's wreckage came on top of an already serious food insecurity situation in Mozambique," the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reports.
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Making matters worse is that when financial markets are in trouble, market pros usually turn to Washington's lawmakers and regulators for help, and now they find no solace.
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Making matters worse for Antonio, we've discovered his campaign has over $44k in debts and loans ... meaning, the Republican candidate is taking this red thing way too seriously.
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Making matters worse, these octopods are long-lived, which means recovery could take a while, and may not even be possible with all the hard seafloor suddenly gone.
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Making matters worse, Twitter hasn't done a very good job at communicating with these users about what, if anything, the can do to regain access to their accounts.
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Check it out ... Steve-O says Corey -- who still refuses to apologize for mocking the 10-year-old girl -- is only making matters worse trying to explain himself.
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Making matters worse, the food retailers like Wal-Mart will be exerting pressure to keep prices sharp, and cost cutting by manufacturers is unlikely to provide enough relief.
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Making matters worse, even when a project completes the permitting process, more often than not, mining companies will face automatic and frivolous legal challenges from environmental extremist groups.
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Making matters worse, Huskies reserve forward Tim Myles was carried off the floor midway through the second half with what appeared to be a foot or ankle issue.
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Making matters worse, damage caused by Superstorm Sandy in 2012 shortened even further their safe lifespans, necessitating the revival of a stalled plan to build a new tube.
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Making matters worse, the tax bill would disallow deductions for any payments made after the bill becomes law — even if the nondisclosure agreement was entered into years earlier.
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Making matters worse, a war that Turkey had fought for more than three decades against Kurdish militants resumed last year, turning cities in the southeast into war zones.
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Making matters worse, political scientists Peter Enns and Jonathon Schuldt have suggested that Trump may be even less popular than these standard Gallup approval and disapproval numbers suggest.
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Making matters worse, drugs for high blood pressure, like water pills that make a person's kidneys release more sodium, often increase levels of uric acid in the body.
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The Nets were just 226-of-2122 shooting in the quarter, and making matters worse was the fact they committed seven of their 2105 turnovers in the stanza.
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Making matters worse, wild horses are very fertile; their population increases 21 percent a year, meaning the number of wild horses will double in the next four years.
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Making matters worse, the White House has not ruled out the possibility that 1-future may be working with Russian hackers, further damaging already-strained US and Russia ties.
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In the end, big plans died of internal disagreement, a fear of making matters worse or a misguided belief in the resilience of American society and its democratic institutions.
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Making matters worse, other Democrats in the House are facing sexual misconduct charges, and some of them insist Pelosi knew about the charges against them well into the past.
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The European Commission said Italy's economy was facing excessive imbalances and policies of its government were making matters worse and also posed a threat to other euro zone countries.
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Making matters worse, a surge of inflation, driven by higher oil prices, has clawed back almost all those wage gains, as David Leonhardt documents at the New York Times.
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Making matters worse has been the arrival of the Porsche Taycan, which in proper German-car fashion became the fastest production EV to lap the famous Nürburgring Nordschleife track.
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Making matters worse, Cole's role, durable starting pitcher, is the most glaring area of need for the Yankees in their quest to win the team's 603th World Series title.
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Making matters worse for Trump is that a large number of prominent Republicans would prefer that some other Republican be at the top of their party's ticket in 22019.
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Making matters worse, most residents and businesses rely on wells that drain underground aquifers for their water supplies, resulting in the city sinking by 5-10 cm each year.
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Making matters worse, as one of Dahlquist's direct reports, Passeri was still required to submit her "call sheets" to him, which gave him access to daily information about her whereabouts.
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Making matters worse this year, the Santa Anas arrived during an abnormally dry start to the wet season, leaving soil moisture low and fuels like grass and brush bone dry.
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Making matters worse, since January the dollar, the currency in which fuel is priced, has strengthened by a tenth against the rupee, the currency in which ticket revenues are booked.
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North Carolina insurance commissioner: This is 'a real problem' Making matters worse, Alba says, Blue Cross knew that her son had an addiction problem when it sent him the money.
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Making matters worse is a betting-industry "arms race", says Tom Mace from Sportradar, with bookmakers taking bets on ever more matches, including at semi-professional, amateur and youth level.
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And making matters worse, we can't even point at Cambridge Analytica's deception as the reason Trump was elected: a closer look at its methods suggests they might not even work.
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Making matters worse, they're doing it in an appalling way: by inserting a provision designed to let corporate criminals off the hook into legislation to reform the criminal-justice system.
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Making matters worse for Colorado is that it might have to play Game 226 without starting goalie Jonathan Bernier, who departed after the second period with a lower-body injury.
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Making matters worse for these young people is that it appears that Donald Trump -- like the master showman he is -- has intentionally sought to stoke the anticipation surrounding his decision.
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Making matters worse ... Cosby -- who was sentenced to at least 3 years behind bars -- was also fined $25k in his sexual assault case plus the costs of the prosecution team.
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Making matters worse are college admissions pressures, state testing, curriculum frameworks that emphasize breadth over depth, simplistic systems of teacher evaluation, large classes, large teacher loads and short class periods.
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But some unofficial platforms for candid discussions, such as a previously employee-run newsletter for sharing complaints, are now being overseen by HR, which sources say is making matters worse.
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Making matters worse for her and voters who still find themselves in a similar situation is that Harper-Madison's home state of Texas, has some of the nation's toughest voting restrictions.
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Over-fishing and the mounting impacts of climate change - including warmer water in the lake, a decline in winter rains and severe flash floods during the monsoon - are making matters worse.
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Making matters worse is that the President of the United States is at best, fine with being a beneficiary of this rising, visible hate, if not himself an engine of it.
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Making matters worse, forecasters say the storm could trap the bone-chilling cold currently putting the middle of the U.S. in a deep freeze over the Atlantic coastline later this week.
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Dehn also argues that the U.S. appears to be "hurtling" towards recession, after the Atlanta Fed revised its fourth quarter growth down, with the strengthening of the dollar making matters worse.
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Making matters worse for the County's rationale for higher taxes on timeshares, the Council commissioned an outside study to support raising timeshare taxes to the highest level in the United States.
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Making matters worse, issuers typically experience peak losses on credit card loans after about two years of origination, and Carcache expects the bank's portfolio to face "outsized headwinds" in that period.
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Hoiberg said the Bulls have a process in place as LaVine prepares to return to the lineup, but they won't rush him and risk making matters worse in the long run.
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Making matters worse, over 60 percent of covered workers are in self-funded plans, in which the employer pays a worker's medical expenses and hires an insurance company to process claims.
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Making matters worse, invasive predators are wiping out native species that play their own part in redistributing vegetation—small mammals, for instance, that pull vegetation underground for use in their nests.
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Making matters worse is the role of Peter Navarro, a relatively unknown economist who became a presidential adviser because his idiosyncratic views on trade are consistent with Mr. Trump's isolationist leanings.
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Making matters worse, the deal's inspection provisions lack adequate mechanisms to prevent, detect, and punish cheating and don't even have the unqualified right to inspect many important locations, including military facilities.
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Making matters worse, three Chinese medical companies have said that they do not have the capacity to make enough test kits for the new coronavirus, according to local news media reports.
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Making matters worse for the White House, the bill had virtually no support from health care, insurance, patient advocate and disease groups, and was harshly judged by the Congressional Budget Office.
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Making matters worse, the deal's inspection provisions lack adequate mechanisms to prevent, detect, and punish cheating, and don't even have the unqualified right to inspect many important locations, including military facilities.
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Making matters worse, it now appears that even states willing to accept the federal government's offers of assistance could be left waiting for help to arrive until just weeks before elections begin.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Italy is facing excessive economic imbalances and the policies of its government are making matters worse, posing a threat to other euro zone countries, the European Commission said on Wednesday.
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Making matters worse, the drop-off in tourism and gaming revenues has forced the city to pay back some of the property taxes it has collected from casinos that are still operating.
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Making matters worse, international sanctions and anemic economic growth for the past six years have meant Russians' real incomes are falling and withdrawals of hard currency from Russian banks are up sharply.
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Making matters worse for Iowa, Trump is scheduled to trek to Capitol Hill — the very venue of his trial — the day after the caucus to deliver his State of the Union address.
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Making matters worse, some of the repeat offenders have been arrested for committing acts of anti-semitic assault and harassment just as New York is seeing a disturbing spike in those crimes.
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Making matters worse: forecasters predicted on Tuesday that a second major hurricane is bearing down on the United States, with Irma, a Category 5 storm, churning toward Puerto Rico and, potentially, Florida.
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Making matters worse, if a user were to search the name circulating in right-wing media currently, Facebook's search feature pulls up posts that include URLs that include the supposed whistleblower's name.
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Making matters worse, the project is behind schedule and over budget; by some estimates, it could end up costing as much as $25 billion, nearly twice the initial estimate of $803 billion.
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Making matters worse, several GOP members told CNN that Ryan's position was never clear publicly and confusion over the issue only helped Marshall and his supporters to paint Huelskamp as out of step.
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Behind the scenes, however, they are seething that statements by the Vermont senator are just making matters worse by further alienating his supporters from Clinton, the front-runner for the party's presidential nomination.
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Making matters worse, the island is facing a serious brain drain, with many of Puerto Rico's best and brightest leaving their homes in order to find better economic opportunities on the U.S. mainland.
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The episode caused a 215-minute flight delay before the family was asked to deplane (making matters worse, some passengers reportedly cheered and the family wasn't able to get home for two days).
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Making matters worse is when these external messages combine with complicated feelings on issues like community loyalty that can plague a victim when the man who commits offenses against her is also black.
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Here in Illinois, the chief's vehement opponents and steadfast defenders seem to agree on one thing: They believe the university's leaders have repeatedly failed to act decisively on Chief Illiniwek, making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, the call just came from Washington – another carrier group needs to be sent to the Mediterranean immediately, to help stabilize a flash point in the Global War on Resource Scarcity.
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Making matters worse, he said, in areas where the storm ended with heavy rain, the salt and other chemicals laid down before the storm to prevent ice may have largely been washed away.
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Making matters worse, Bill Sammon, the network's Washington managing editor, said Mr. Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, had appeared to level a threat against Ms. Kelly in a conversation they had over the weekend.
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Making matters worse, Morgan Stanley expects so-called middle distillates like diesel and jet fuel to account for most of the growth in oil demand, and light crudes aren't ideal for making these products.
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For instance, some players tried to help with healing spells, inadvertently making matters worse, since their efforts endured constant replenishment of those susceptible to the spell, rather than letting the outbreak run its course.
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Making matters worse, the college is accused of enrolling new students and taking their taxpayer-supported financial aid dollars even after some of its campuses had lost their accreditation, which rendered their credits worthless.
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Making matters worse, the college is accused of enrolling new students and taking their taxpayer-supported financial aid dollars even after some of its campuses had lost their accreditation, which rendered their credits worthless.
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Making matters worse, bitterness against the government has been boiling over as the country struggles with severe shortages of food and medicine, forcing Venezuelans to wait in lines for hours for basics like cornmeal.
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Making matters worse, meteorologists say, is the arrival of a localized El Niño event, a sudden rise in ocean temperature in the Pacific, which this year has happened off the coast of South America.
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Making matters worse ... video recently surfaced showing TONS of unused earthquake aid -- from bottled water, diapers and formula to portable stoves and propane gas -- collecting dust in a government-owned 43,000 square foot warehouse.
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Making matters worse, Republicans have given up on getting any Democratic support for their reforms, which means they need to pass the bill through the narrow channel of budget reconciliation so it can't be filibustered.
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Making matters worse for the Knicks, ESPN has reported that the Nets are also signing former Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers star Kyrie Irving, as well as DeAndre Jordan, who last played for the Knicks.
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Making matters worse, the refs had to review the play to make sure he got the shot off in time, which he did, but they could not go back in and review the no-call.
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Democrats quickly seized on the comments as yet more evidence to bolster their case for impeachment and multiple White House officials and Trump allies privately expressed dismay that Trump was making matters worse for himself.
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Making matters worse, New England and New York are using imported liquefied natural gas (LNG), which is much more expensive than domestic gas, to satisfy nearly 20 percent of their heating and electric power needs.
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Making matters worse, the outer core also has low gravity, because, when you're that deep, much of the planet's mass is now above you, which produces a gravitational force that pulls away from the center.
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Making matters worse, this year we have Kim Jong Un on one side: A young, relatively inexperienced and unpredictable leader prone to aggression who could be facing internal turmoil (one explanation for killing his brother).
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Making matters worse, a 2017 investigation by state auditors revealed that school officials manipulate the lottery process, which is supposed to select enrollees randomly through a "blind" system, to grant preferential admission to white students.
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Making matters worse: Emerging economies also have borrowed at an unprecedented rate and at a time when global interest rates are rising and the dollar has strengthened, meaning the loans will cost more to pay back.
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Making matters worse, Twitter never made the beta version of its new API widely available to these developers, who were growing increasingly worried their apps would stop working as of the June 19, 2018, migration date.
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He initially denied these accusations on stream, according to Inven and Korean-speaking Redditors following the situation, and even condemned fellow pros who engaged in similar conduct, only making matters worse when the truth came out.
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Making matters worse is the administration's clear message that no one is safe — even at least one DREAMer who came here when he was 9 and got explicit protection under the Obama administration has been deported.
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Making matters worse is that in 2016, several swing states — including Colorado, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida — will still be using digital voting machines that hacking experts have demonstrated could be hacked in under a minute.
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Making matters worse, the CBOE Volatility Index, the stock market's main gauge of volatility and investors' appetite for risk, ran at similarly low levels to a year ago for much of the first half of 2019.
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In many places we are actually making matters worse, in part due to misguided federal policies, by undermining the ability of floodplains, coastal wetlands, and other natural systems to buffer our communities from increasingly severe storms.
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Making matters worse for Activision, there was a customer backlash last month when the company unveiled a new mobile version of a game in its popular Diablo series instead of a sequel to the PC version.
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Making matters worse, the NFL is now looking into how the team handled the reporting of his injury, as it's unclear when exactly the Detroit front office knew that Stafford would not be able to play.
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Making matters worse for Republicans, Democrats hold a double-digit lead in the generic House ballot, and Trump's historically low approval rating for a first-term president is expected to be a drag on the party.
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Making matters worse for Sweden's more liberal politicians, the election saw the far-right Sweden Democrats party increase its share of the vote, becoming something of a "kingmaker" in the formation of a new coalition government.
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Making matters worse is Chargers star Melvin Ingram has 5.5 sacks and was named AFC Defensive Player of the Month as he seemingly tries to earn his new four-year, $64 million contract in one year alone.
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Making matters worse, most refugees in Italy are unable to obtain work permits, so many of them end up working illegally in agriculture, or as petty drug pushers, pimps, or prostitutes in piazzas and urban train stations.
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Making matters worse will be winds that will howl out of the northwest at 40 miles per hour or higher, causing wind chills to plunge into the minus-20s Fahrenheit by Sunday morning in New York City.
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Making matters worse for British Airways, Al-Bassam was only looking into the company's Twitter activity because he discovered he couldn't check in for his flight — to a security conference no less — without disabling his ad blocker.
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Making matters worse, the agencies that have a leader in place have been pursuing stark anti-science agendas, such as clearing out nonpartisan scientific advisory boards at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and seeking drastic budget cuts.
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Making matters worse, Aqua says Sean flaunted the pieces on his IG. TMZ broke the story ... Aqua sued Sean back in 2016, but the rapper never responded to the lawsuit, so the judge issued a default judgment.
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Making matters worse ... Huma was a top aide to then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton when federal investigators found hundreds of thousands of Clinton's emails in Weiner's laptop ... forever changing the course of the 2016 Presidential election.
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Making matters worse, cuts in spending affect the nascent private sectors where, apart from the UAE and Bahrain, most activity is linked to oil, such as services to the industry; and to public spending, such as construction.
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Making matters worse for Gawker was Peter Thiel, the billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur, who acknowledged after the Hogan trial that he had funded the lawsuit and was providing financial support for other legal cases against the company.
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Making matters worse, Gambia, Burundi and South Africa have announced their intention to leave the court, which some African leaders see as a vestige of colonialism because it has so far tried cases only from their continent.
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Making matters worse for candidates who have seen their fund-raising pace slow dramatically since the end of June, the House's turn toward impeachment comes in the last week of the quarter, just days before a Sept.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fire authorities insisted on Monday that they have ample water supplies to fight California's devastating wildfires, contrary to U.S. President Donald Trump's tweets that unspecified water diversions to the Pacific were making matters worse.
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Dozens, sometimes hundreds, of people have been apprehended within view of the newly built wall, and residents are worried the barrier has only redirected migrants to other parts of town, creating new problems and possibly making matters worse.
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Making matters worse, the percentage of revenue being sucked up by boutique banks — often staffed with big banks' one-time rainmakers — are tracking all-time highs, leaving an even smaller pool of capital for traditional banks to absorb.
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Making matters worse was an article that appeared in two of Mr. Schroeder's papers that was critical of a judge overseeing a lawsuit against Mr. Adelson — spawning conspiracy theories about collusion between Mr. Schroeder and the new owners.
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Making matters worse, the contraction in September was steeper than it was in August, when the sector contracted for the first time in three years because of higher prices that factories pay for materials and weaker global demand.
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Making matters worse, I was never granted my $5 cancellation fee from the company, even after a lengthy back-and-forth with its support team — the representatives I spoke with claimed I didn't wait the full five minutes.
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Making matters worse still, because the Supreme Court also held that even a sale outside of the United States exhausts U.S. patent rights, American companies will be wary of selling their wares at steep discounts to poor countries.
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Making matters worse is the fact that almost the entire news media is covering and following this election all wrong, precisely because it's hopelessly unaware of how people are getting their information and making their choices in America today.
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Making matters worse is the fact that a major chunk of the people not signing up are the younger and healthier Americans the ACA's architects were foolishly relying on to help absorb the costs from older and sicker enrollees.
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Making matters worse, Italy's economy entered a recession in the final three months of 2018 and the government reportedly expects the economy to grow by just 0.1 percent in 2019, down from a 1 percent forecast made in December.
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Making matters worse is that not only do these recruits have all of their information in the hands of the federal government, they are in constant contact with the military or in many cases are already in military service.
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When Trump seemed committed to protecting a friend, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, after Saudi agents assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi, he did it in a characteristically misleading, nonsensical manner, arguably making matters worse for the embattled crown prince.
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Making matters worse, the shock result plunged one of America's closest allies and a critical trading partner into uncertainty just 10 days before the U.K. enters very complex and high-stakes talks over its "Brexit" from the European Union.
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Making matters worse is Gene's refusal to allow any of the injured and wounded (himself included) to seek medical attention beyond his wife's tinctures — "God's pharmacy" — a refusal that also greatly exacerbates the effects of two terrible car accidents.
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Making matters worse, the rookie quarterback Baker Mayfield took a public stance that seemed to support Haley, saying, "We don't need to reinvent the wheel," when it was suggested that Jackson, a former offensive coordinator, take over the offense.
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But the British people can't even agree on how their first few seconds of independence will play out, and their Prime Minister, who famously called for "healing" upon his general election win in December, is only making matters worse.
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"Making matters worse, if you then pay the bill on someone else's account, the system prompts you to add yourself as an authorized user and requests the callers phone number, potentially granting them full access to your account," the user wrote.
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Making matters worse is a viral video published on the Chinese video-sharing app Douyin (known as TikTok in other parts of the world) featuring fireworks shooting out of the tip of the structure while it's lit up at night.
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Making matters worse, it appears Libyan exports are set to resume, as a result of an uneasy agreement among warring government factions and the resolution of a last-minute glitch over pay for the guards at their key export terminals.
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Making matters worse for New Orleans, guard Eric Gordon, who averaged 22.7 points in the previous three games after missing 16 consecutive games with a broken right ring finger, re-fractured the finger with 3:343 left in the first half.
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Making matters worse, Iron Fist is a product of Orientalist appropriation, and that already has the potential to be more offensive than inspiring, especially at a time when Marvel has styled itself as the standard-bearer for diversity in superhero stories.
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Making matters worse for Opdivo, researchers earlier this month said Merck's rival Keytruda prolonged the life of similar patients, and on Monday, it became the first of new immunotherapy drugs approved in the United States for initial lung cancer treatment.
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Making matters worse is the evidence that it was the Communist Party system itself, which does not reward speaking out or risk taking, that likely led Wuhan city officials to initially downplay the virus and attempt to control the narrative.
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The process for fiscal year 2018 is already off to a late start, and, making matters worse, Republicans in on the House side are now trying to sneak policy riders that would not otherwise pass into the must-pass budget bills.
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So, rather than raising unrealistic expectations, Trump should start by avoiding making matters worse, look for smart ways to continue the fight against ISIS, and above all, level with the American public that the fight is bound to be a long one.
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" Making matters worse, 911 service is down in some areas; storms send new patients into ERs while hospitals are struggling to manage the patients they already have; and the scramble makes it harder to promptly answer family members' questions about hospitalized relatives. "Dr.
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Making matters worse for him, it turned out that at least three other members of Mr Trump's cabinet—Stephen Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, Scott Pruit, boss of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Ryan Zinke, the interior secretary, had also been using private jets.
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Making matters worse for countries that rely on oil export revenues for their wealth, Iran's return to the market as a major oil producer following the lifting of international sanctions does not bode well for a cut in output and boost for prices.
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Making matters worse, several envoys have recently resigned or signaled their intent to resign, including Ambassador to Qatar Dana Shell Smith, Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson, Ambassador to Panama John Feeley and the top diplomat in charge of North Korea policy, Joseph Yun.
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Making matters worse, Brexit supporters within the British parliament have rebelled against Prime Minister Theresa May's "Chequers plan," which lays out the U.K.'s future relationship with the EU and that would result in a "softer" Brexit and closer regulatory alignment with Europe.
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Making matters worse, Donald Trump and Republicans have announced they'll launch $10 million in negative TV ads — with $1 million targeted at the early nominating states alone — pushing the president's claim that Biden and his son Hunter engaged in corruption in Ukraine.
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"Making matters worse, Bondi is one of the two hand-picked officials whom Defendant Scott appointed to the [Elections Canvassing Commission], which has ultimate authority over the review and certification of the very election that Defendant Scott is hoping to secure," the court record says.
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Making matters worse, the 102 advisors tasked with protecting more than a dozen critical infrastructure sectors — including elections — have shifting priorities, and are often told to "focus on the next widespread or known event," such as preventing school shootings and preparing for major events.
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Making matters worse, conspiracy theories have long circulated among her enemies on the right about the supposedly poor state of her health, triggered by an episode in 2012 in which she fainted, suffered a concussion, and was subsequently found to have a blood clot.
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Making matters worse for Ohio State is a win Thursday guarantees a third matchup in 18 days with No.2 seed Michigan State - which defeated the Buckeyes by an average of 62.63 points in two of their last three regular-season contests - in Friday's quarterfinals.
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Here — so the argument goes — was the most reformist government in the kingdom's history; and then it did this stupid, awful thing; and now the U.S. runs the risk of making matters worse "in a fit of righteousness," as one observer recently put it.
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Making matters worse, the scariest monster of them all, Nigel Farage, who is sitting out Thursday's elections, will be leading a full-throttled campaign for the European Parliament that is expected to draw legions of disaffected pro-Brexit Tories to his new Brexit Party.
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Making matters worse, police officers and soldiers accompanying Ebola response teams have on occasion opened fire during confrontations with grieving family members and neighbors, according to interviews with health workers who described three such episodes — one that is being examined by the United Nations.
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Making matters worse, the mussels suck up practically every speck of life in the water except a toxic form of blue-green algae called microcystis, which, due largely to a flood of under-regulated agricultural runoff, blossoms like an aqueous atomic bomb each summer.
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Making matters worse, whereas application of the standard under the first jurisdictional statute (where it originated) is limited to federal courts seeking to verify their own jurisdiction, the application of the second jurisdictional statute will now invite state courts to confront the standard's morass.
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Making matters worse, a website bug allowed anyone access to any Social Captain user's profile without having to log in — simply plugging in a user's unique account ID into the company's web address would grant access to their Social Captain account — and their Instagram login credentials.
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Making matters worse, some of them carry sniper rifles and night-vision equipment, meaning that the kind of night battles that gave you an early-game advantage suddenly become impossible until you get specialized night-fighting gear (which, again, you'll probably have to take off their dead bodies).
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Making matters worse, President Trump then fired Comey and said publicly that the firing was related to the Russia investigation — a statement that might be interpreted as an implicit threat to Comey's replacement that he should bring the probe to a halt if he wanted to keep his job.
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Making matters worse, Title II would have left Americans with fewer choices and deteriorating service, as it would have made it even more costly and complex for new ISPs to enter the market and for existing ISPs to remain in business, build out their networks, and invest in new technology.
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Making matters worse for Mr. Temer, only 2 percent of Brazilians would vote for him in the 2018 election, Datafolha said, placing him well behind potential candidates like Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former president who backed Ms. Rousseff's rise, and Jair Bolsonaro, an ultraconservative congressman from Rio de Janeiro.
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Making matters worse for Deutsche Bank is that short-term rates tied to the Libor, or the London interbank offered rate — the benchmark financial institutions use when they borrow money — have been edging up as a result of concerns over rising interest rates and a dearth of ready cash in the markets.
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Making matters worse, some of these patients are considered too sick and prone to infection to endure a long wait in a hospital, so they are undergoing invasive surgery to implant a left ventricular assist device, or LVAD — implantation of a mechanical pump inside the patient's chest to help their weakened heart to pump blood.
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Making matters worse, they are going on the road against the Jaguars (0-2), a team that should be in disarray with Nick Foles out and Jalen Ramsey demanding a trade but one that is somehow put together an impressive performance in which they very nearly beat Houston despite being a 9.5-point underdog.
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At the same time as proposing these massive fee increases, the administration has proposed the largest budget cut to the National Park Service since World War II. Making matters worse, the administration recently proposed additional hurdles for families planning trips to national parks by reducing the number of fee-free days from 10 to four in 85033.
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Powell says that the worst case scenario here is that it's likely you're putting yourself in a sort of sex-olympics between your real-world self and what you perceive your ideal sexual self to be, and it's stressing you out, making matters worse by constantly encouraging you to feel like you're somehow not good enough.
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Making matters worse, military planners from each branch simply do not take those missions into account when they calculate how many EOD technicians they need for military operations in a given year, according to the GAO, resulting in personnel levels across the US armed forces that don't reflect the growing demand for non-combat EOD missions.
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Making matters worse, the US military believes North Korea already has the capability to "miniaturize" a nuclear weapon and fit it onto that missile, which it could then use to hit major US cities like Washington, DC. Taken together, it looks like there's little Trump can do to stop North Korea's march toward a missile that can carry a nuclear weapon to the American mainland.
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Making matters worse, the EPA has, under the misguided leadership of Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE, become a tool of the very industries it is tasked with regulating.
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