But what's worse is when these symptoms are just scalpeled from the patient, as if there's no correlation between the dysfunction and the surrounding environment.
Proclaimed as the first victim of Singapore's newly-enforced Computer Misuse Act, the 17-year old Garyl Tan Jia Luo picked up 18 months of probation (some of which will be at home) instead of jail time, but what's potentially worse is the fact that he is not allowed to access the internet during his stint.
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But then, what's worse for the financial system, or maybe in the long term, it's actually good, but we can get to that later.
The BP spill on the U.S. Gulf Coast was a different type of environmental disaster but conservatively was no worse than what happened in Ecuador and arguably much less impactful because it was cleaned up so quickly.
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But what if someday he wanted to--or worse, needed to--sell it.
It still seems bad, but not necessarily worse than pursuing the euro scheme come what may.
But what we see in the public markets is a lot worse than what we see in the real estate market.
This does not mean that relations are good, or that America and Russia are allies, but what sort of evidence do we have that things are worse than they were?
New York was hard hit by snow, but in almost every case, what you saw on TV was worse than what residents faced.
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So, I don't know what can be worse than flipping and flopping, but I guess they found at least the way to rhetorically take it over the top.
What has happened so far is bad enough, but there is worse to come.
"What you did reflects poorly on all of us women, but even worse on humankind, " wrote Malia Stubben on Adria Richards' blog.
"You can referee badly, but what you cannot do is create your own type of justice and, worse, invent a personal application of the rules, " Cruyff said.
What if using Avastin for AMD has a worse safety profile, but also costs a lot less?
At the grassroots level, too often Republicans and conservatives look up to Boehner and McConnell for answers, but regardless of what you think of them, the Congressional brand problem (being worse than the Republican brand problem) makes them ineffective spokespeople.
But given what has happened to the other economic statistics, it could be a lot worse.
"There are jobs around if I want to make less than what I'm making on unemployment, but that would put me in a worse spot, " he said.
This is not necessarily a case of being better or worse, says Dr Linnell, but it could be a reflection of what is needed to survive in an overcrowded urban setting.
"I don't like to get into an us-versus-them situation, but the drought in these other locations is going to get worse and worse and what we have to offer is going to get more and more attractive, " said David Ullrich, executive director of an organization representing the Great Lakes region's mayors.
But by the time that a Windows PC did almost all of what a Mac did (albeit worse and with many more bugs and holes) at a significantly lower price then Apple was relegated to a backwater of the market with, what was it, 4% market share?
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Remember, my grandparents, they were -- they came out of the Depression, had it a lot worse than we did, and they understood what it meant to struggle, but they were willing to struggle because they knew it would be good for not only their own families, but for the country.
For a company sitting on the biggest oil find in the Americas in the last decade, this is what the market thinks about Petrobras: After better than expected fourth quarter earnings, but worse than expected year enders, the share price of this stock was down 7.5 percent at noon in New York on Tuesday.
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For better and worse, this flawed but touching hero is a man of action, revealing himself through what he does rather what he says.
Travelers checks remain a useful option, but the places you'll exchange the checks overseas offer rates 5% or more worse than what you'll receive using credit cards, so your best bet is to stick with plastic, says Lucy Lazarony of Bankrate.com, an Internet personal finance Web site.
One possibility is that future releases will be smaller and less impactful, but the more worrisome issue is what happens if the economy or the financial system takes a turn for the worse and banks like JPMorgan find themselves having to rebuild those reserves rather than tapping them as a way to bolster earnings.
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