And while SUVs use more fuel per mile than passenger cars, prior to the most recent spike in gas prices, Americans were driving them further distances than ever before, exacerbating the fuel-efficiency problem.
Within a decade he was widely seen as having entered — again precociously — a decline that became ever more precipitous, exacerbated by relentless self-promotion, shameless hucksterism and a fervent return to Roman Catholicism.
This discouraging record has been well known for decades and has been exacerbated ever since Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law.
Ever-present hunger exacerbated the poor labour relations, and strikes became endemic, especially in Petrograd.
In an emotionally charged day that followed Egypt's worst-ever sporting disaster, exacerbated by charges that security forces stood by and allowed rival fans to clash, nearly 10,000 gathered in Tahrir Square and outside the Interior Ministry, with some ripping down barbed wire around the building.
There are way more startups today than ever before, which has exacerbated the challenge of doing pretty much anything.
Superstorm Sandy was one of the most predicted storms ever, nonetheless the damage exacerbated by indifference to the warnings, to include the loss of life, resulted in record physical and financial destruction.
By now, North Korea's rigid centrally-controlled economy had slipped into an ever-deepening economic crisis exacerbated by the collapse of the country's main trading partner, the Soviet Union.
But there is nary a glimmer of that, with Russia and China backing the Assad government while the West supports the opposition and both accuse the other of exacerbating ever new levels of violence.
