Word: worsens
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...related decision last week showed less respect for the states' jury standards and threatened to worsen court congestion. In New York City's criminal courts, there is now a backlog of about 500,000 cases. The backlog would be even worse if a unique statute did not forbid jury trials in these courts. Instead, such cases are tried by speedier single judges or, if the defendant wishes, by three-judge panels. Robert Baldwin, charged with "jostling" (pickpocketing), was convicted by a single judge and sentenced to one year in prison. He appealed, relying on a two-year...
...Congressman from the Delta town of Antioch. "Why then," asks Waidie, "should we increase the pressures on that limited air supply by a governmental policy that will enable barren acres to develop more subdivisions, more automobiles, and more people?" According to Ecologist Watt, the influx of water will worsen Los Angeles smog, which in turn will transform the area into a "death trap...
Powers pointed out that one of the greatest problems of any police force (including Cambridge's) is not being able to educate its officers in community relations and human psychology. A wrong arrest at the wrong time can only worsen the already shaky relations between police and the community...
...slim. Second-class citizens in their adopted homelands, unwelcome in their native countries and unwanted in England, they form what Liberal M.P. David Steel called "a growing community of semi-destitute British citizens." Already plagued by inadequate housing, crowded schools and bitter competition for jobs, Britain seems unwilling to worsen the situation by relaxing its immigration laws...
What about key studies that indicate putting low achievers in classes with high achievers improves the performance of the former? Banfield only mentions this, but without interest. Besides, he assures us, that would also worsen the performance of the high achievers when the proportion of low achievers "passes a certain point." We know of no data to support that view. And if it should be true, why pass "that certain point...