And things are even worse for the third or fourth barber who builds in a particular backyard.

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In the regions things are even worse: many publications are loss-making arms of other businesses whose owners may use them for their own ends.

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For those without an investment-grade rating, things are even worse.

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In the stem-cell arena, things are even worse.

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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.

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When they finally do find a place they think is safe, it turns out things in the world are even worse than they thought.

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By realizing, in part, the authors tell us, that many of the things we all loathe about working for an org are there to stop making things even worse.

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The government is using the media to make things seem even worse than they really are.

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"Even simple things like arthritis are made worse and that will have an impact generally in the way that people can live their lives, go out to work and so on, " he said.

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Even worse for the world to learn just how bad things are behind the omnipresent dikes.

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