The greedy, selfish "development" has worsened, instead of alleviating, its two biggest headaches: housing and traffic.
One nerve growth factor, instead of alleviating a disease, made people feel full, and is now being tested as an obesity drug.
They risk falling into a category of grievers who, according to Ruth Davis Konigsberg, author of The Truth About Grief: The Myth of its Five Stages and the New Science of Loss, are in thrall to "unnecessarily lengthy – and agonising – models for coping with grief that have created more anxiety about the experience instead of alleviating it".
Three decades after the implementation of housing policies, transport still fails to mitigate these distances and instead of alleviating the patterns of segregation, it may have reinforced them.
By reducing the incentive for domestic farmers to increase production, controls over grain exports in some developing countries have worsened shortages instead of alleviating them, thus contributing to higher world prices.
Instead of alleviating our anxiety, "Mad Men" dares to depict it, give it shape, rub our faces in it.
Instead of alleviating stress, excessive displays of emotion may contribute to excessive worry or guilt in the recipient.
Instead of alleviating stress, they may contribute to what patients described as feelings of being "over-protected", "being more stress", and "feelings of invalidism".
Instead of alleviating toxicity, S11A demonstrates severe toxicity when expressed in the eye, producing an even smaller and rougher eye than wild-type tau (42).
The surgeons said that they attempt to give every patient a chance to survive, and avoid the risk of termination of treatment too early may result in overtreatment, and prolonging the patients' pain and suffering instead of alleviating them.
