Things got much worse after they separated.

当他们彻底分开后，事情变得更加糟糕。

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They've got a lot of nasty things to negotiate in the future, and one missed step could make the situation much, much worse.

今后他们还要在许多棘手问题之间平衡妥协，任何一个小差错都可能使情况变得越来越糟。

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Vibha has long had poor health, with diabetes, obesity, and congestive heart failure, but things got much worse in the summer of 2009.

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"The government figured it had to step in, it had to act before things got much worse, so it came in, it shut Washington Mutual down and arranged to sell it, " Zarroli says.

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But in two respects, things have actually got much worse.

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