"If that happens time and time again as they change jobs, they could be significantly worse off, " she said.

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Looking next door to Liberia or Sierra Leone, they see that life could be worse.

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What could be worse, they ask, than more Russian strategic warheads?

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The numbers could be even worse as statisticians said they chose a more conservative approach to estimating diet and lifestyle-related deaths, saying the factors might actually cause 500, 000 deaths annually, as much as cancer.

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However for the current year, the economists warned that overall growth for 2012 could be slightly negative which is worse than they had originally expected in a previous report back in June.

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Her party's shadow Welsh secretary Owen Smith recently said that income tax powers "probably oughtn't be devolved right now" and warned they could leave Wales worse off.

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It was shocking for the general public but for people with families of learning disabilities it was worse, as they would have thought 'that could be my son or my daughter'.

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And the worse part of the pitiful state of most risk assessments is that they could be so much more.

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If the embarrassment could somehow be dismissed as nothing but a blip in a meaningless fixture, worse came when they played a match that definitely mattered.

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Mostly, she thought the couples should be allowed to adopt, because whatever flaws they had were no worse than the flaws of people who could have children effortlessly, even thoughtlessly, and she knew that children could survive almost anything.

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