Word: worsened
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...retain top researchers or hire replacements. Political meddling has stopped some areas of investigation and assumed control of others. A recent monitoring of ethical infractions, concerns about allegations of fraud, and new conflict- of-interest regulations have combined to drag down morale. The Bush Administration let the situation worsen by leaving the NIH without a director for nearly two years. At least three men turned the job down, some protesting the Administration's abortion "litmus test...
...have started to pay off, it is still practically a foreign concept in this city of green golf courses and lush lawns. Even if Clark County gets the water from its rural neighbors, it must seriously begin to plan for growth and the water shortages that are likely to worsen throughout the West in coming decades. If it doesn't, Las Vegas may be gambling its future away...
Last fall the CIA warned the White House that Operation Desert Shield could, if it continued too long, worsen underlying tensions between mosque and palace in Saudi Arabia. It was largely with that danger in mind that General Norman Schwarzkopf, the U.S. commander, told his officers, "Let's be careful we don't win the war but lose the peace." There's no way nearly 400,000 troops can be invisible, but there are plenty of ways they can respect local customs. That's why quite a few women in the U.S. contingent bought abayyas before they did any other...
...that is if everything goes well, which is no sure thing. The economists in the TIME forum warned that the U.S. faces a minefield of unprecedented risks that could worsen the recession and prolong it through next year and beyond. Chief among them is the threat of a drawn-out war in the Persian Gulf. That could push the price of oil, which closed at $25.92 per bbl. last week, well past the $41.40-per-bbl. peak that it hit in October. Another serious threat is the possibility of a crisis in the U.S. banking system, which is awash...
George Bush, an aristocrat who hates to deny crumbs to anyone, vetoed the bill anyway, on the ground that it encouraged racial quotas. But the bill was more than just bad legislation. It was a sign of intellectual bankruptcy in our thinking about race. As race relations worsen, as ethnic divisions harden, as an ex-Nazi pulls nearly as many votes in Louisiana as did the 1988 Democratic presidential candidate, the country has run out of ideas...