Word: worsens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing risk to shipping, the U.S. Navy acknowledged that it had begun to provide protection for tankers chartered to supply fuel for the American naval ships patrolling the gulf. The Reagan Administration is prepared to extend air and naval cover to other vessels if the tanker war should worsen. Under the plan, the U.S. would establish a sort of naval cordon sanitaire along the western channel of the gulf, through which ships from nonbelligerent nations destined for neutral ports would be escorted. No ships carrying arms or supplies for the warring countries would be included...
Construction companies also have been fretting about the outlook. An April survey of the National Association of Home Builders found that members fear that business will worsen in coming months. It was the first sign of pessimism in two years. "Change is in the wind," says Michael Sumichrast, chief economist for the organization of 40,000 builders...
...scandal reflecting on a newspaper might have been acknowledged briefly, if at all, back among the truss ads. But the best papers have learned from Watergate a lesson that officeholders in government are still learning: any attempt to cover up or to play down a scandal is apt to worsen...
...thing, however, appears certain. As long as Harvard looks for new ways and new places to subcontract, employees will continue to worry and labor relations will continue to worsen...
...think hunger will worsen over the next four years because any Administration will inherit a $200 billion federal deficit," said McGovern...