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.

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In fact, the situation seems worse today than ever before, both because of the growing complexity of the system and electronic filing.

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In the past decade, corporate America has become a much worse place to work than ever before, by many measures.

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The growing disparity in wealth made the great recession worse and the recovery weaker than ever before.

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When I saw that, I just exclaimed to people around me, ''This is much worse than anything we've ever faced before.

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The risk of contagion is ever-present: Spain is in worse shape than before, Italy is on a knife-edge.

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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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They will claim that traffic jams are worse, trains are dirtier, less reliable and more overcrowded and motorists harder hit with taxes than ever before.

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