The combination of these two factors explains why higher taxes make things worse rather than better.
The firm said these figures indicate that the situation was getting worse rather than better.
Reacting to market panic with panicky rate cuts is likely to make things worse rather than better.
That could easily be just the right amount of time to make things worse rather than better.
The first is that the schools the poorest Americans attend have been getting worse rather than better.
Since the study was published the situation had got worse rather than better, a GMAC spokesman said recently.
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The bill has numerous provisions that, from a public health perspective, actually make matters worse, rather than better.
The news from manufacturers is also likely to get worse rather than better.
One global consumer goods company told us recently that Facebook was getting worse, rather than better, at helping marketers succeed.
But another part can be attributed to the slow-down in the US and most of Europe that seems to be getting worse rather than better.
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"It would be a terrible mistake that would make the current crisis worse, rather than better, " says Barbara Roper, director of investor protection at the Consumer Federation of America.
And it would also mean paralysis of the system because it would take a few years to put it in place and the railway network would simply get worse rather than better.
Those are supposed to make college more affordable, but since schools have consistently responded by raising tuition prices and capturing those subsidies, students end up deeper in debt, rather than better off.
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This country right up until the kind of latest data was rather, holding up rather better, domestic demand was holding up rather better than elsewhere and that's why it was appropriate for us to make a moderate move after the, the shock.
Rather than delivering better care it will reinforce the culture of buck-passing and mutual blame.
And so you stuck with the status quo but rather than getting better over time, things only got worse.
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It would be better for the global economy if savers piled their cash into equities and corporate bonds now, rather than waiting for better news.
The researchers also managed to pinpoint the way private schools work their magic: through better exam results, rather than through networking opportunities or better teaching of soft skills, such as etiquette or leadership.
Spending at home has held up rather better than might have been expected, as well.
But in relative terms, Canada is doing rather better than most other rich countries.
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But it is rather better than the premium rating reached in 1994, at the height of investor enthusiasm.
They do seem to me to measure what we really want to measure rather better than the more usual figures.
In maths and science boys and girls perform much the same at primary school, but at age 15 boys do rather better than girls in maths (though not science).
Some cynical bankers suggest that the 40% of Morgan Stanley's shareholders who worked at the bank before its merger with Dean Witter, Discover have done rather better than its outside shareholders.
The BBC's Education Correspondent Maggie Taggart said that one problem seems to be that the employers were insisting that they want to clarify their existing offer rather than make a better one.
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It is a bit different in London and the South East of England where there is a concentration of some older people who are actually doing rather better than the country as a whole.
Roads are also a priority issue and one of the group's "six to fix", a list which also includes planning for school places, having libraries run by staff rather than volunteers and better public transport.
"I think we always knew that we weren't going to emerge from Copenhagen with a completely legally binding signed and sealed treaty, but I think we'd hoped for something rather better than this, " he said.
So it's not that many of these ideas aren't workable, but we have to refine them to make sure that they don't just end up worsening the situation for folks rather than making it better.
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One suspects that Lansana Gberies' contacts with politicians are rather better than his contacts with the military because this book does not really answer this crucial question - perhaps that should be the subject of his next study.
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