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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But aside from "30 Rock" and "Arrested Development, " this has led to little more than better decorated interiors.
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.
Three years ago, the word "retrofit" was more likely to bring to mind Jack LaLanne than better homes and workplaces.
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So trying to retain higher margin for themselves while charging higher prices than better machines is a foolish trick that cannot last.
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More helpful than better policing, however, is the turn in public opinion.
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.
But a mobile phone may be more useful to the poor than better food, since the phone may generate income during the next harvest failure, and good food will not.
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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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Generally I find that customer service standards in restaurants and hotels is far better than in shops (although small independant shops tend to be much better than supermarkets and large chains), and that the more mature staff tend to give better service than their younger colleagues.
On the big picture having a third ecosystem running on very similar rules to the other two can be worser than better because the agents already hate the fragmentation and the whole of agents start behaving on boicotting the new system who brings even more fragmentation.
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"Buying a membership is better than putting cash in the bank, better than putting it in the stock market, and better than putting it into gold, " said Do Dinh Thuy, a 48-year-old management consultant, amid the steady thwack of balls being driven out onto a local range here in Hanoi's suburbs.
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It was better than meerschaum, much better than whale tooth.
The critics already agree that 2009 is better than 2008, maybe even better than 2005.
So rich media is better than display and tablets are better than smartphones.
Copper is up 19% this year, better than all stock indexes, better than the GSCI index of commodities and rivaling the 25% rise in the price of gold.
As a Marine, i know that I have to work hard, and prepare myself for a challenge everyday to be better than yesterday, and be better than my competition.
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Ernie Els is among a large group on two under, which is one better than Vijay Singh and two better than Adam Scott - the best-ranked player present at four.
Mutual fund managers have done better than the ETFs, but not better than IEI.
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They not only know better than we do, they know better than all of us together do.
Smart is better than dumb, but right is better than smart, and right is largely a matter of fundamental principles.
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