• Worse, half or more of the 14, 000 staff are expected to lose their jobs.

    ECONOMIST: Disaster yields disbelief��and disgruntlement

  • Worse, these half-measures of the past two years actually may have made the quest for the comprehensive deal politically harder.

    WSJ: How (Maybe) to Reach Elusive Big Budget Deal

  • To make matters worse, only half that revenue was coming from mobile and lots of people use Facebook on mobile.

    FORBES: By all means.

  • But West Brom's defensive problems got worse on the half hour mark when Marek Cech was caught on the knee by John Pantsil's trailing leg and the Slovakian had to be replaced by Nicky Shorey at left-back.

    BBC: Fulham 3-0 West Bromwich Albion

  • Although the total number of workers going overseas increased slightly during the first half of this year, the overseas employment administration thinks things could be getting worse during the second half, especially for household workers.

    ECONOMIST: A different kind of foreign policy

  • Will it lead to a recession in Japan that is two and a half times worse than the U.S. recession?

    FORBES: Only Knuckleheads Count Out Japan Or Apple

  • It only got worse in the second half for Atlanta, which trailed by 23 early in the fourth on a couple of long jumpers by Blatche.

    WSJ: Lopez, Blatche lead Nets past Atlanta, 93-80

  • Wasps looked shell-shocked and things went from bad to worse when scrum-half Joe Simpson, who had a lively game, dropped a try-scoring pass from David Lemi five metres from the line.

    BBC: Wasps 19-35 Bath

  • The first Millennium Ecosystem Assessment report, released in March, warned that approximately 60 percent of the ecosystem supporting life on Earth was being degraded or used unsustainably and that the consequences of degradation could grow significantly worse in the next half century.

    CNN: Growing deserts 'a global problem'

  • By that logic, the Spending Review is regressive in the broad sense (worse for the bottom half than the top half) but when it comes down to specifics, is actually going to squeeze the middle a little bit more than the absolute poor.

    FORBES: The Stiff Upper Lip and Its Discontents

  • The review said there were no checks on surgeons' qualifications in some parts of the private sector, an issue made worse by more than half of cosmetic surgery being performed by "fly in, fly out" doctors - surgeons based abroad who fly into the UK to perform operations and then fly back out again.

    BBC: 'Cosmetic crisis' waiting to happen

  • Arca was guilty of an even worse miss midway through the half, planting a free header wide of the post from a Pogatetz cross, before Viduka finally struck.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Premiership | Middlesbrough 3-1 Fulham

  • But it was Tomkins' brother Joel who got into worse trouble right on the half-time hooter when he was sin-binned after a push and shove on the halfway line.

    BBC: Harlequins 12-36 Wigan

  • His afternoon got worse on the stroke of half-time when he produced a reckless challenge on Koscielny and referee Martin Atkinson wasted little time in producing a straight red card.

    BBC: Liverpool 1-1 Arsenal

  • European leaders make that half of the problem worse with their gloomy remarks and assessments.

    FORBES: European Leaders, Wake Up!

  • Almost 70% of them reckon economic conditions are getting worse, compared with less than half in 2004.

    ECONOMIST: The mid-term elections

  • Things got worse for Newcastle when scrum-half Hall Charlton went off with a back injury just after half-time.

    BBC: Leicester 20-3 Newcastle

  • Morecambe's afternoon went from bad to worse when, one minute after half-time, captain Jim Bentley upended Green in the box.

    BBC: Dag & Red 6-0 Morecambe

  • It could have been so much worse for Sunderland in a first half totally dominated by a Liverpool team oozing with the confidence that had been so starkly absent for much of this season.

    BBC: Liverpool 3-0 Sunderland

  • And the first half comparisons are even worse.

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  • They forecast that if temperatures rise as projected by climate models, trees will face worse drought stress in the first half of the twenty-first century than they have experienced for 1, 000 years, probably driving a transformation of the ecosystem.

    FORBES: Forests and Climate Change: a Combustible Combination

  • New owners make it worse by accosting the uninitiated with a half-hour sales pitch.

    FORBES: TiVo

  • Things got worse for Bristol early in the second half as former captain Matt Salter was sin-binned for obstruction, with Leicester taking advantage through Flood's try.

    BBC: Leicester 73-3 Bristol

  • Things got worse for the Blues midway through the half when hooker Rhys Thomas was sin-binned for killing the ball, after Dragons centre Tom Riley had chased down an Arlidge grubber.

    BBC: Blues 42-13 Dragons

  • The United States is the most over-lawyered country in the world, and the last two-and-a-half years have only made matters worse.

    FORBES: Jobs Sputter as Laws and Regulators Go Wild

  • To make matters worse, Stoudemire did not play the last half of the fourth quarter after a tumble left him with what he said was a sprained ankle.

    WSJ: Knicks Flawed in Loss to Lakers

  • The funds run by politicians are in much worse shape: They also admit to being half a trillion dollars underwater, but their true liability is more like a trillion and a half.

    FORBES: Investing In Cloudland

  • After five years of financial crisis, the European record is in: Northern Europe is sound, thanks to austerity, while southern Europe is hurting because of half- hearted austerity or, worse, fiscal stimulus.

    FORBES: If Austerity Is So Awesome Why Hasn't Poland Tried It? (Updated)

  • They said they expect the worst financial crisis in more than a half century is going to get even worse.

    FORBES

  • But a frustrating half for Accrington could have been far worse if Long had not missed an excellent opportunity for the away side.

    BBC: Accrington 0-1 Stevenage (agg 0-3)

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