Word: worsens
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...considerably more than it brought in last year, when the start of shipments from Alaska temporarily held down imports. But it would be a low enough ceiling to force curtailment of some cherished petroleum-wasting habits such as lavish outdoor lighting displays, and it might extend or worsen the present prospects of recession. The Europeans accepted the principle of setting country-by-country limits, and of applying them to consumption as well as imports, but held off actually working them out until after a meeting of the nine-nation European Community later this year...
...disruption is certain to worsen a severe food shortage...
...controversy over the proper approach to city planning has been raging for some time, becoming more acute as urban problems worsen. Criticism has battered the CRP, whose approach is decidedly untraditional. CRP opponents complain that the GSD, under the guidance of Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the GSD, is turning the planner into a technocrat, skilled in economic modelling and computer analysis, but insensitive to human concerns and aesthetic problems. Their criticism of Kilbridge extend outside the CRP to what they see is an insensitivity to the other more design-oriented departments at the school. CRP officials say Harvard...
Generally, board members believe that there is little more the Government can or should do to change the course of the economy for the rest of the year. Any further fiddling with broad policy now would probably worsen either inflation or recession-or both. Says Greenspan: "If inflation is public enemy No. 1, we would be well served by a do-nothing Congress." Murray Weidenbaum of Washington University in St. Louis urges repeal of many Inflationary federal regulations. "My advice is: 'Don't just stand there, undo something.' " But Heller figures that all the Government...
...most secret plans of World War II were drawn up, faced an exquisitely difficult choice. They had to decide whether to further tighten credit and raise interest rates, thus taking the risk of tipping the nation into recession, or to maintain rates at their present levels, which might worsen inflation. Their deliberations will be kept secret for a month, but early signs are that the committee, which has been closely divided on the issue in the immediate past, voted not to lift rates...