Did you know, that if you're going 100 mph, directly at a very, very thick, reinforced concrete wall, and you speed up, so you're accelerating right when you hit the wall that the accident you have is going to be much worse than if you'd jammed on the brakes as soon as you saw the wall at the end of the street?

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"The reality is much worse than what you can see in the pictures or on TV, " President Castro said.

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Hong Kong is in much worse shape than you realize.

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Similarly, the latest headlines on GDP and employment growth sounded much worse than they were when you look under the hood.

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But if you had to look to a nonagenarian for direction, you could do much worse than Harman, a technology pioneer and lover of the arts whose life has taken as many twists as a telenovela.

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The odds are in your favor that you will be better off, however there is more than a small chance that you will be much worse off.

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There is nothing worse than telling a college with strict distribution requirements how much you value their flexibility.

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And to kill a man for something he cannot help, such as his race, seems much worse a motive than to kill him because he is rich, or successful, or owes you money.

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