A determination to stick to the gold standard helped worsen the Great Depression.
The auto slowdown has helped worsen an increasingly nasty recession in Japan's export-dependent economy, the world's largest after the United States.
The housing market, whose collapse in a storm of foreclosures helped worsen the economic decline, has snapped back in many, though not all, parts of the state.
An ardent environmentalist, he concedes that the Excursion's fuel consumption (10 miles per gallon in the city, 13 on the highway) helps worsen global warming, and that its bulk (more than 7,500 pounds -- three times as heavy as a Honda Civic) puts other motorists at risk.
The conditions of prisons add to the stress that cannot help but worsen their ailments.
Fixed but adjustable exchange rates helped to worsen the plight of the East Asian economies and others in the late 1990s.
The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, closed the party's conference on Wednesday with a promise that the party "can and will do more" to help a worsening economy.
The city began favoring working families over welfare recipients at its 322 housing projects in 1996, in an effort to reduce concentrations of poverty that officials believed had helped to worsen crime in and around the housing projects.
Even if blacks and Hispanics make progress in the years ahead as the economy improves, the persistence of the wealth gap has pushed many public policy scholars to recommend the adoption of more ambitious programs to help reduce worsening inequality.
In the meantime, some doctors were searching for other trials that could help patients worsening in the chemotherapy group of the Roche trial, even at the risk of undermining its results.
