They have seen worse war and lawlessness than this, and they have seen earlier predictions of catastrophe confounded by the Afghans' resilience.
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But clearly lifestyles got worse during the war: so was it an absence of economic growth?
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The situation is even worse among the war-affected people of northern Uganda, including Arua district.
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And things will only get worse the longer the war drags on.
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In a recent poll, Americans were largely split about whether the economy was getting better or worse and whether the war in Iraq was worth the cost.
Still I feel it will be worse than any time since World War II.
For Hosni Mubarak, the timing of this war could hardly be worse.
People close to Hezbollah said the group was "exercising maximum restraint" to avoid being dragged into sectarian war in Lebanon and worse, a Shiite-on-Shiite fight.
That would make it one of the worse decades for living standards since World War II.
The downturn has led to millions of dollars in losses - and there are predictions that the damage to the industry could be worse than that resulting from the Gulf War 10 years ago.
Here, within earshot of Turkey's highways, you can also hear the distant but occasional thud of artillery -- a reminder that the war they fled remains the worse option over the squalor they now endure.
On April 9th, the International Air Transport Association said that the SARS outbreak could have a significantly worse impact on the airline industry than the war in Iraq.
To make matters worse, he now denies that it is a war at all.
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Making matters worse, international donors, sickened by a pointless war, are not in a generous mood.
The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, made worse by unemployment levels not seen since before World War II.
If Saddam had not been stopped, Iraq could have produced a nuclear bomb by 1993, years earlier than most worse-case assessments that had been made before the war.
He said it's only in the last year that events have begun to get significantly worse and that up until the year 2005, the war was going well.
We watch Satellite as, true to his name, he brings television (and therefore news of war) to a clamoring community, and, far worse, we watch the teen-age Agrin (Avaz Latif) try, with awful persistence, to put a stop to her own suffering and to that of her illegitimate child.
Separate studies of American and Australian Gulf-war veterans show that the more pills veterans took, the worse their health is today.
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Yet, as the Obama administration ramped up the war, it kept the country's president at arm's length, or worse.
So while things could get a lot worse in this dispute, both sides are keen to move back from the prospect of all-out war.
My next concern is that the moral relativism which emerged post war- and which is probably unavoidable in a liberal society- has morphed into something much worse- what we may call intellectual relativism.
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Exit polls suggest that a major reason for the much worse than expected performance of the SPD (22%) in its area of dominance during the pre-World War II Weimar Republic is that it proposed a much slower process of reunification while the CDU-led Alliance and the Free Democrats (with 53% of the vote) agreed with Kohl on a rapid process of reunification.
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