To the contrary, if anything, the unavailability of basic consumer goods is worse than ever.
As the 2011 season kicks into its seventh week, things are looking worse than ever in Tampa.
Eventually, our fossil fuel supplies will be depleted and the price-dependency squeeze will be worse than ever.
Flight attendant Heather Poole has witnessed firsthand growing frustration among passengers in the past decade, and she said it's worse than ever.
When the plan collapsed, his prospects, none too good in even the best of circumstances, looked worse than ever, and Mr Paisley's still better.
Today, with more and more bright students going abroad to university, many Greek parents reckon that the country's state education is worse than ever before.
Clearly, he beat up his body playing hockey worse than he ever beat up another hockey player.
In fact, the situation seems worse today than ever before, both because of the growing complexity of the system and electronic filing.
The truth is that is usually does happen at sometime in the life of an organisation, and it is much worse than anyone ever imagined.
You might have dipped your toe into the waters last summer, but Europe was a worse mess than ever, China was flirting with a bust by bursting its own housing bubble and the heavily hyped financial reforms turned out not to prevent US banks from losing billions via arcane trading strategies.
If you're playing Phuket's Blue Canyon--good luck on number 14--the drop is worse than any devaluation ever was.
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But then, having lived through the mess that I lived through at Walter Reed has been worse than anything I ever sacrificed in my life.
The government brand is worse than it has ever been, and both parties are held in contempt, especially by the swing voters who booted out the Republicans in 2008 and the Democrats now.
Martin Luther King, who saw far worse injustices than were ever inflicted on convicted felon Rodney King and suspected felon Mark Duggan (whose shooting death sparked the London riots), knew that nonviolent protest was the only effective way to secure social justice.
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But "after his 80 years of office, the things are worse than they've ever been, " Kuti says.
In the past decade, corporate America has become a much worse place to work than ever before, by many measures.
The growing disparity in wealth made the great recession worse and the recovery weaker than ever before.
When I saw that, I just exclaimed to people around me, ''This is much worse than anything we've ever faced before.
Gridlock, for better or worse, is more entrenched than ever.
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The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has "tortured" Brown during his probation worse than any client he's ever had, Geragos said.
Jonathan Coode, prosecuting for the RSPCA at Bicester Magistrates' Court, said conditions at the centre were worse than "most of the witnesses have ever experienced".
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Ms. WEBSTER: I think it's safe to say that it's as bad as it's ever been, probably even worse than in the '70s during the oil crisis.
The abuse is getting worse for one woman, but she feels more trapped than ever because there's no income for her and the kids, and she already feels she overstayed her welcome with friends and relatives after Katrina.
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And they're more likely than ever to fall into the hands of our worse enemy.
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The risk of contagion is ever-present: Spain is in worse shape than before, Italy is on a knife-edge.
But United.com wanted to rebook me for Wednesday, three days later and clearly a much worse day to travel, during or immediately after the storm rather than before it ever arrived.
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They will claim that traffic jams are worse, trains are dirtier, less reliable and more overcrowded and motorists harder hit with taxes than ever before.
The country's unemployment rate stands at 26% -- its highest level ever -- and the situation is even worse for young people, with more than 55% of 16- to 24-year-olds out of work.
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