Word: worsens
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...many believe," when he insinuates sexual misconduct by Harvard students and when he gives an inadequate defense of the House community. As a result of these three arguments, Dean Lewis casts the clubs in an unfairly negative light. His accusations impede dialogue between the clubs and the University and worsen an already antagonistic relationship. Nearly 10 percent of male undergraduates are final club members. It is important that Dean Lewis do his part to cultivate a working relationship with them...
...fall of 1985, my brother left our home in Winter Park, Fla., for Yale. We were all very proud, but the experience that was about to begin would only worsen my brother's esteem. In his two years at Yale, he encountered a harshness that took him in and spit him out in so many ways. My brother never graduated, and for the next 10 years he wandered from job to job and city to city without finding the security he was so desperately looking...
...that was before last week's drop in the stock market, which fostered a sense that slower growth lies ahead. And the wealth effect could greatly worsen matters if stocks really hit the skids. "We've got a market that's doubled in the last three years," says Stephen Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. "If you lose 10% or 20% after doubling, that's not real pain. But if you take this correction into the 25% range, the market could hurt more going down than it helped going up." That's because people often feel worse about...
Some advocates for air raids believe that bombing will worsen conditions in Iraq to the point that the Iraqi people will rebel. Statistics, however, show that the Iraqi situation could hardly get worse than it is now. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reports that sanctions have led to the deaths of more than 560,000 Iraqi children--a total greater than the death toll of Bosnian genocide. In a country of 20 million, 1 million have died since 1990. The truth of the matter is that suffering caused by bombing will only add to already overwhelming misery. Bombing Iraq...
...Social Studies and owner of The New Republic, for advice, Berkowitz came to the conclusion that one, he had not even spoken with Thompson during his six years in the same department and that this review might start a conversation, and two, that even though this review "might worsen my prospects for tenure at Harvard, if it was done well it might attract employers outside Harvard...