The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported on May 1 that the company will record a JPY 500 billion loss for last year, worse than the year before loss of JPY 376 billion, and than the previously forecast loss of JPY 450 billion.
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Then, the respondents expected only a 2.1 percent increase in comparable store sales, worse than the year before.
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The growing disparity in wealth made the great recession worse and the recovery weaker than ever before.
In fact, the situation seems worse today than ever before, both because of the growing complexity of the system and electronic filing.
The calls for Israel's international isolation, the decision to treat Israel as a beyond-the-pale-pariah-nation far worse than Hamas, emerged even before the Netanyahu government was sworn into office.
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Ministers were "not blind" to the deterioration in conditions and recognised the "economic context was much worse than before".
Yet it could well be that the passage of the Dodd-Frank bill, which seems so misconceived at so many levels, could have made things in the financial sector far worse than they were before.
The Coast Guard is being criticized for waiting hours before telling the public the spill was much worse than originally reported, and the Coast Guard's Rear Admiral Craig Bone says that heavy fog is no excuse for running into the bridge.
The action was even worse than what we saw before Labor Day weekend.
In both cases, Pyongyang collected aid and concessions, cheated on the deals and emerged as a worse threat than before.
The feds had a level of control over banks much greater than before, and because they did, the bailouts themselves were worse than the bankruptcy alternative.
In other words, all the vulnerable populations are going to have worse access than before.
Relief efforts stall or are sidetracked--and the population of the affected area often is worse off than it was before.
The worst that can happen is that the Court will just reverse the transfer so that you are no worse off than before.
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Today, with more and more bright students going abroad to university, many Greek parents reckon that the country's state education is worse than ever before.
That would make this by some measure the worst four-year period for the UK, outside wartime, in at least 100 years - worse than what happened in the 1920s and 1930s, and worse than anything in the 1970s and 1980s ( I've gone into these figures before).
If employers decide they would rather eat the penalty rather than shell out the incremental costs for health coverage, then they are in worse shape from a financial standpoint than before.
The Fed announced its move minutes before the Labor Department said the February employment picture in the United States was far worse than had been expected, with 63, 000 jobs lost.
Man United's defenders could do worse than flick through a French dictionary before the season proper starts.
That was far worse than anything witnessed in central Europe before the war, though it still pales by comparison with the horrors of the Nazi era.
One reason why Ford took this direction is that it had already begun sorting itself out, having been in a worse position than either GM or Chrysler before the credit crunch and recession struck in 2008.
But I believe and I think most would tell you that the rate is more likely than not to get a little worse before it gets better.
Not only does this perpetuate (and usual exacerbate) notoriously byzantine operational practices and leave many users explicitly complaining they are worse off than before, but it also misses the chance to offer conceptually original approaches that profoundly improve workflow and enhance user experience.
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The debt problem at the motor group is as bad if not worse than it was with Nissan before it was turned around by Carlos Ghosn.
But United.com wanted to rebook me for Wednesday, three days later and clearly a much worse day to travel, during or immediately after the storm rather than before it ever arrived.
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The risk of contagion is ever-present: Spain is in worse shape than before, Italy is on a knife-edge.
Organisational problems may be worse in Haiti, which before the earthquake had more NGOs per head than anywhere else in the Americas.
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Father-of-three, Nagina Manjhi, tells me that things are now even worse than before: "We used to work in the fields or do other manual labour and somehow manage to make a living, " he explains.
Critics carp that the program will siphon off students from failing schools, leaving those institutions worse off than before.
In the past decade, corporate America has become a much worse place to work than ever before, by many measures.
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