Mr Obama and his advisers, at odds over strategy, dithered over allocating troops and, far worse, set a date for them to start their withdrawal (see Lexington).
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Until the government is willing to grasp this particular nettle, congestion looks set to get worse.
But the date of Mr Mori's departure is still not set and, worse, none of the likely candidates to succeed him inspires much confidence.
Although a trickle of Russians, foreign passports safely in hand, are now returning from the West, overall the brain drain looks set to get worse, not better.
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It was the most lopsided victory in NCAA tournament history for a team seeded third or worse, breaking a mark set about an hour earlier by VCU against Akron.
Because the population of 15 to 19-year-olds is set to rise over the coming decade, and because young men are taking longer to settle down and abandon crime than in the past, the problem looks set to get worse.
For some reason, we are dead set on making it worse.
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Things got even worse for Murray in the third set as he began to struggle physically and failed to chase down balls that he would normally have returned with relish, and the trainer was called when he trailed 4-1.
For better or worse, the T'Pop is set for availability this month in Asian markets.
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This trend is set to continue and will be worse if we have fewer people in younger generations.
These problems have grown worse, they claim, since EuropeAid was set up.
But what doesn't make sense -- and the only thing that we've seen from Republicans so far in terms of proposals -- is to replace this set of arbitrary cuts with even worse arbitrary cuts.
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Worse, the recent political shift in Europe could set the bank on a collision course with euro finance ministers.
What's even worse is if you look at the details of the set on the site.
Worse still is the intimidation of liberal activists which is set against the grim background of the unsolved murder on November 20th in St Petersburg of Galina Starovoitova, one of Russia's best-known reformers.
To make matters worse for Yukos and Mr Khodorkovsky, the government has lately set about tightening the screws in anticipation of the sale.
Germany's system of centralised pay bargaining, under which unions and bosses set wages and hours across whole industries, makes matters worse by compressing wage differentials.
It's better in a couple areas and worse in a couple others, but none of the scores are set to any sort of extreme -- in other words, the Verizon GS III doesn't stand out of the crowd for better or worse.
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Still worse, out of the gate a show about the under-30 set drew viewers with a median age of 51.
Maybe even worse than stunting the growth of action sports is that ESPN has now set a precedent that may lead toward future cancellations.
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To make matters worse, the three-phase benefit--each with its own set of rules--creates powerful incentives for old people, with the connivance or even the active participation of doctors and druggists, to pad their pill expenses.
However, academic research by Professors Mary Benner and Mike Tushman showed that its adoption could actually lead to a decrease in innovation after a few years (because ISO9000 does not allow for deviations from a set standard, which innovation requires), making the adopter worse off.
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If you were a government and had to set priorities for a sustainable future, you could do a lot worse than the health of the country, the vitality of business and the welfare of the average citizen.
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Much worse off, Portugal lost 3% of its economic output last year and is set to shed another 1% this year.
At the time of writing, all the major Euro countries are in crisis, with Germany close to joining the fold, with growth set to halve next year (assuming Euro-zone problems get no worse).
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