The combination of these two factors explains why higher taxes make things worse rather than better.
Programming errors get fixed belatedly with hastily concocted "patches" that sometimes make things worse.
The question is whether a full transfer of ownership would really make things worse.
Private-sector wage cuts needed to restore Greece's competitiveness will make things worse in the short term.
Screen savers actually make things worse, using 28% more power than normal, says the NRDC's Horowitz.
Attempts to cut the deficit by 3.2% of GDP in a year will make things worse.
As long as you're only tinkering at the margins, you'll just make things worse.
"The River Seven will peak tonight and that will make things worse, " he said.
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An invasion by thousands of starving Haitians, if this now happens, can only make things worse.
Recession in the United States, which buys 75% of its exports, can only make things worse.
To make things worse, Moscow's envoy to Grozny, Valentin Vlasov, was taken hostage on May Day.
To make things worse, the false notices kept going out months after Indiana officials discovered the errors.
Reacting to market panic with panicky rate cuts is likely to make things worse rather than better.
Could it actually make things worse because you have some pretty tough comments coming back at him?
Today the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander tells them that they'll only make things worse.
If peak acidities rather than long-term averages are what matters most, natural variability could make things worse.
That could easily be just the right amount of time to make things worse rather than better.
Governments that try to help them by restricting food trade are likely to make things worse still.
The naysayers could, however, gum up the works in ways that actually make things worse for broadband holdouts.
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The British government's recent proposal to partly privatise the Tote the state-owned competitor to the bookmakers could make things worse.
Or would it, by making the FDA the only force guarding the public's safety, actually make things worse?
To make things worse, the high, 80-milligram dose of the drug will probably not make it to pharmacy shelves.
And when we shame ourselves and others for failing, we make things worse.
The only government power he had confidence in was the power to make things worse, by debauching the currency.
To make things worse, Russia soon faced a crisis in supplying of paper.
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Their sin is that they look likely to make things worse, not better.
To make things worse, the grudges are not limited to the main characters.
Her conclusion years ago: Gamma secretase inhibitors like the Lilly drug would block presenilin and hence might make things worse.
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But until labour markets are freed, tight macroeconomic policy is one of those shocks that can only make things worse.
But the same technology could also make things worse, if it is unable to understand callers or gives inappropriate responses.
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