Word: worsens
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Without continued hope and activism in South Korea, Kim said that the current political situation will worsen and that by 1988 all that would remain is a "highly polarized political system" with an "extreme left and extreme right party. Democracy and security are inseperable...
...supporters, chief among them Ronald Reagan, the notion of a space- based missile defense system holds out the promise of eventually ending the awesome threat posed by the world's nuclear arsenals. To its critics, the idea could worsen the threat by ending any real hope for lasting arms-control agreements and by aborting the work of Soviet and American negotiators meeting in Geneva this week. But to many scientists who are responsible for the technology of the concept rather than its policy implications, Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as Star Wars, is still little more than, well...
Ultimately, that point of view depends on the assumption that Nicaragua is a country backed close to the wall and that the Sandinistas are aware that their plight might worsen if Ronald Reagan is reelected. There is, in fact, little doubt that Nicaragua is now in trouble economically, and has suffered from attacks by the marauding contras. Robert Leiken, a senior fellow with the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, describes Nicaragua's economic situation as "really rough, just unbelievable." Leiken cites food shortages in the countryside, wildcat strikes in Sandinista-controlled trade unions and widespread protests against...
...various symptoms of Mexico City's illness all work on and worsen one another. But the one problem that underlies all the others is the extraordinary growth in population. The Aztec capital known as Tenochtitlán, with its lakes and flower gardens (and an efficient sewage system), was depopulated by a smallpox epidemic in 1520, which killed more than 80% of all the Indians who survived the Spanish invasion. Mexico City did not reach the 2 million mark until after World War II. But then a systematic national policy of urban industrialization helped send the figures soaring...
...grass dwellings and even the sky have turned a deadly ashen hue. International relief officials in the capital of Maputo estimate that 170,000 Mozambicans have died since the drought began. A United Nations situation report issued in early June predicts that Mozambique's famine will probably worsen through the year and reach its most critical stage early in 1985. U.N. officials in Mozambique say that 1.5 million people out of a population of about 13.4 million are already totally dependent on foreign relief supplies...